theorywatch

… according to Don Fallis at Arizona, who takes a very pragmatic (and philosophically-grounded) approach to the epistemology of Wikipedia: he notes that there are several epistemic virtues that haven’t been previously considered in discussions about the “value” of Wikipedia.

This is a NY Times piece on Wikipedia’s proposed “approval system” for monitoring edits.

And here is Faviki, a social tagging application based on using Wikipedia subject terms.

The pragmatic point being, I take it, that the brain (or the World Brain) is always already at work on making the best of what it finds available in its environment.