Happy 18th Birthday, Wikipedia. Let’s Celebrate the Internet’s Good Grown-Up.

On Wikipedia, truth matters more than self-expression

Stephen Harrison
The Washington Post
4 min readJan 18, 2019

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By Stephen Harrison

On Tuesday, Wikipedia celebrated its 18th birthday. If the massive crowdsourced encyclopedia project were human, then in most countries, it would just now be considered a legal adult. But in truth…

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Stephen Harrison
The Washington Post

Covering Wikipedia and internet knowledge for @Slate. Attorney. Written for NY Times/WaPo/Atlantic.