Wikipedia is a major step in the late phase of Enlightenment. It is the democratization of the encyclopedia, taking mankind's knowledge out of the hands of the publishers, delivering it to the people. Well, that's my idea of what it will become. Let's not forget that Wikipedia is less than eight years old, and has still a lot of change ahead of it. one thing I see coming up is integration with personal encyclopedias. I use MediaWiki as PIM, putting the stuff that is private or irrevelant to the audience at large into my personal EncyclopediaGalactica, adding the rest to Wikipedia. This has proved so infernally useful for me that I can't imagine I'm the only one who does it that way.

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"A Paradox may be Paradoctored"
Robert Anson Heinlein, All You Zombies, 1958