Wikipedia in China

9:07 am intellectual freedom

This morning the Chronicle of Higher Education's educational technology blog, The Wired Campus, reports that China has stopped blocking access to the Chinese-language Wikipedia. This could be an interesting test of its open editing model. Will government employees go in and edit articles to reflect the government's interpretation of events, movements, individuals, and ideas? If so, will others edit those? If this scenario plays out, will all of the editors do their work anonymously? This could be an interesting test of the theory that the knowledge and wisdom of the many will present human knowledge accurately and completely.

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