Opinion essay
The conservatism of Wikimedians
Oliver Keyes (User:Ironholds) is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. The following article on the conservatism of the Wikimedia movement was adapted from an August 27 2011 post on his website, Quominus.org. Oliver previously spoke about related issues in his address to the 2011 Wikimania conference "Hippies with Guns: how ideological conflict shapes Wikipedia and what we can learn from it".
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