Thanks to Mr. Edson for sending me the following link on Wikipedia Historiography. How fascinating to see the range of edits that were included on Wikipedia about the Iraq War:
"This particular book—or rather, set of books—is every edit made to a single Wikipedia article, The Iraq War, during the five years between the article’s inception in December 2004 and November 2009, a total of 12,000 changes and almost 7,000 pages. "
James Bridle decided to make a book of all those edits and ultimately created a 12-volume encyclopedia. Fascinating to see the many perspectives on history and how challenging it can be to write history; this project is a good way to see how many versions of history were written in just under five years.
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