Wikipedia

"Perhaps the best embodiment of Wikipedia's democratic aspirations can be found in its structural design. The abundance of footnotes and hyperlinks uniquely positions the site as something like a live annotated bibliography. This is not a call for the neo-liberal potential of immaterialized, 'social' networks but a reminder that Wikipedia is able to redirect its millions of readers from standardized encyclopaedic entries to a multiplicity of interpretations and resources. It is here that Wikipedia's social formation has the potential to enact a meaningful model of diversity: embracing multiplicity and discursiveness rather than reducing entries to a singular, utopian concensus."

from History 2.0, Olivian Cha, Frieze no.168, January - February 2015