Unpopular opinion: Wikipedia should buy encarta and/or britannica and maybe even worldbook

 And create one source of open-source knowledge, contributed by experts with domain expertise and knowledge, but with the freedom to be adopted and adapted for everyday use-case. That way the legitimacy remains, and so does the openness and agility. Sure nobody buys encyclopedia anymore, but that doesn't mean there's no reason to not have experts contribute to the real subject matter. Specially since Wikipedia has changed incentives now, I can see it get formalized even, and be contribution to open-source knowledge-base a requirement for academics in the future.

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