"People who spend hours watching basketball games at home ... nobody asks them if they have a life," said Wales. "We seem to have a cultural bias against intellectual hobbies. There's this social acceptance of being in a softball league. But doing something online that's intellectual seems strange to people."
It's a shame that he is so right.
Judgement and Chance: Reflections on my Wikipedia Summer Studentship 25/26
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History is man-made; as essayist Maria Popova writes, “history is not what
happened, but what survives the shipwreck of judgement and chance,” an apt
metap...
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