NY Times Syndication Friday, February 20, 2015 12:49am WASHINGTON — Wikipedia is a vast ocean of erudition, with entries on virtually every subject, obscure to earth-shattering, and, it may seem, every human being of even vague renown. It is also, its leaders concede, very white. Related News/Archive "The stereotype of a Wikipedia editor is a 30-year-old white man, and so most of the articles written are about stuff that interests 30-year-old white men," said James Hare, president of Wikimedia D.C., the local branch of the foundation that runs Wikipedia. "So a lot of black history is left out." Students and faculty at Howard University, one of the nation's pre-eminent...
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