#Wikipedia is unreliable, they say, clutching their leather-bound encyclopedias like holy relics, as if truth only descends when printed by men in tweed who haven't updated an entry since the Cold War.
In 2005, on the internet, knowledge was no gated estate guarded by experts who confuse authority with inertia. Wikipedia's great sin is not inaccuracy but visibility. Its errors are public, argued over, corrected in daylight. Britannica's errors were embalmed in paper & sold at premium.