Number and format of authors

• About the Format
  • Today’s e-books have the same format as paper books, one-dimensional content.
  • Wikipedia is a network-like content using Wiki features.
• About Content
  • Wikipedia is intended to be an encyclopedia by an unspecified number of authors
    • This creates a strong bias to be objective.
    • Putting personal subjectivity into it will cause an editing war.
    • There’s a tag that negatively implies “original research.”
    • Prone to tasteless enumeration of facts
  • Books are intended for a specific few authors to express their ideas
    • With a few exceptions, such as data collections, the goal is “knowledge creation”.
      • Creation is subjective
    • Can be supported by objective data, but the main one is on the side of subjective interpretation.
• The Wiki format creates a written knowledge creation of a specific few authors.

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