Mid-century encyclopaedias claimed the power to decide what counted as knowledge and what didn’t – much as online publishing platforms and social media companies do today.
Wikipedia is frequently considered an unacceptable and unreliable source of information. It’s also constantly correcting – and isn’t that what content should strive to do?
The geography of knowledge has always been uneven. Some people and places have always been more visible and had more voices than others. But the internet seemed to promise something different: a greater…