Colm O'Regan: 'Browsing Wikipedia is like taking a bus, missing your stop, and waking up in a strange town'

Compared to the egotrip of social media, the massive editing edifice of Wikipedia still has some integrity
Colm O'Regan: 'For me, Wikipedia is still a rather pleasing throwback to a simpler time on the internet.'

Colm O'Regan: 'For me, Wikipedia is still a rather pleasing throwback to a simpler time on the internet.'

It's 25 years old this year. Old enough to know better. And if you give it a second, it will know better because some other know-it-all will update it. 

It’s Wikipedia. Once seen as a lazy way out, now with the enshittification of the rest of the internet, its reliability has increased. 

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