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Many professors are ditching the traditional writing assignment and instead asking students to expand or create a Wikipedia article on the topic.

— Stephen Harrison

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Wikipedia is essential infrastructure, almost like a utility that provides a trustworthy resource to the broader Internet.

Every major AI system trains on Wikipedia’s freely licensed knowledge. The irony is that Grokipedia will be built on the unpaid labor of the volunteer Wikipedia editors Musk has gone out of his way to vilify.

The discussions are transparent... you can click through, and you can see everything and it's on the record... It's not happening in some back room somewhere in Washington. You can see it on Wikipedia.

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Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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