# Wikipedia - the Original Encyclopedia

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The piece compares Wikipedia with the Encyclopédie as collaborative, contested, commercially divergent projects for organising and spreading knowledge.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 31 October 2006

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 31 October 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: wikipedia, encyclopedias, knowledge, collaboration.

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