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> There hasn't been a Wikipedia-like event for many decades

I'll give you two examples: Internet Archive. Let's Encrypt.



Hardly a good reference, Internet Archive is older than Wikipedia.


Wikipedia itself is only a little over two decades old. I don't think anyone would parse "many decades" as "two decades".

There's also OpenStreetMap, exactly two decades old and thus four years younger than Wikipedia.


> Wikipedia itself is only a little over two decades old

The world wide web (but not the internet) is only 3 decades old!


Let's Encrypt is very good but it's not exactly a web app, semantic-web or otherwise.


Not true: Wikidata, Open Alex, Europeana, ... and many smaller projects making use of all that data, such as my project Conzept (https://conze.pt)




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