Covering almost 7.5m pages in more than 250 languages, Wikipedia is by far the biggest encyclopaedia ever written. But is it a vast online fount of human knowledge or an extreme example of ‘digital Maoism’, as some critics claim? Tim Adams of The Observer meets Jimmy Wales, the man behind the phenomenon, to get to the facts.
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Covering almost 7.5m pages in more than 250 languages, Wikipedia is by far the biggest encyclopaedia ever written. But is it a vast online fount of human knowledge or an extreme example of ‘digital Maoism’, as some critics claim? Tim Adams of The Observer meets Jimmy Wales, the man behind the phenomenon, to get to the facts.