Articles as Argument Nexus

Funny arti­cle in Wired about wikipedia arti­cles being argu­ment nexus. The first half in hilar­i­ous, but then he falls into some of the more bor­ing traps that every­one likes to repeat when they crit­i­cize wikipedia. This quote great though

In fact, Wikipedia is the largest and most com­pre­hen­sive col­lec­tion of argu­ments in human his­tory, incor­po­rat­ing spats and vendet­tas on sub­jects rang­ing from Suleiman the Mag­nif­i­cent to Dan the Automa­tor. As an unex­pected side effect of being the per­fect argu­ment space, it’s also a pretty good place to find infor­ma­tion about all the char­ac­ters from Bat­tlestar: Galactica.

Maybe after that he should have stopped, or worked out some more mate­r­ial at that qual­ity. A this point though you are almost guar­an­teed atten­tion if you crit­i­cize wikipedia, so for ad-based media it’s a win!