Wikipedia as ‘clearinghouse’

With so much questioning about how the media handle tragedy, there’s an interesting alternative —Wikipedia.

clipped from www.nytimes.com

According to the foundation that runs the various Wikipedias around the world, there were more than 750,000 visits to the main article on the shootings in its first two days, an average of four visits a second. Even The Roanoke Times, which is published near Blacksburg, Va., where the university is located, noted on Thursday that Wikipedia “has emerged as the clearinghouse for detailed information on the event.”

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