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NMH: Wiki's Anti-Fixity?

Just parking a thought. Wiki's are praised for their wide open nature regarding changes. For certain media, especially news, fixity (thanks John Seeley Brown) is an essential property. The newspaper doesn't change out from under folks and therefore can serve as a communal reference point, whether the actual content is right or wrong.

Lemma: Wikis and journalism are fundamentally incompatible.

Hmmm...

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