Barnabas File

I know enough about the Internet, websites, and digital media to be dangerous.  I have no idea about how some of these things work, but I find them useful.  One website I use regularly is Wikipedia.  I occasionally see notes there about “insufficient citations”, “major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with the subject,” or “article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.”  I did not have a clue what these notations mean, who provides them, or how corrections are made until I read The Editors .   The Editors by Stephen Harrison (no relation) provides some insight about this type of resource.  With assistance from some within the Wikipedia community, Harrison has written a “reported work of fiction” about Infopendium.org, a global source of information, and its impact on society.   Harrison’s characters help us understand what drives a person to devote a significant portion of ...