The New Yorker · 21 Oct 2026
Wikipedia’s Pyrrhic Victory
Cooke’s new book, “The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia,” takes on this colossus, a relic of early-aughts idealism on a web that tech giants long ago carved into algorithmically barbarized fiefdoms. Like some crumbling Roman library in the Dark Ages, the encyclopedia is,
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