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Notes: Part III

1. See, e.g., Placeopedia, http://www.placeopedia.com/ (last visited May 30, 2007) (linking Wikipedia articles to specific locations and showing them on a map) Soup Soup Augmented News, http://www.soup-soup.net/ (last visited May 30, 2007) (featuring news, links to Wikipedia articles that give background on the places in the news, and blogs and photos on similar topics in one place).

2. See Joyce K. Reynolds, RFC 1135: The Helminthiasis of the Internet (Dec. 1989), http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1135.txt.

3. See John Borland, See Who’s Editing Wikipedia, Wired.com, Aug. 15, 2007, http:// www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker (explaining the mechanics of Wikiscanner); Posting of Kevin Poulsen to meat level, Vote on the Most Shameful Wikipedia Spin Jobs, Wired.com, http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/wikiwatch/ (Aug. 13, 2007, 23:03 GMT) (curating a user-contributed library of particularly notable instances of organizational censorship on Wikipedia).

4. See generally James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds (2004). For a discussion of communitarian views of democratic citizenship and participatory meaning-making, see, for example, Michael Walzer, Response, in Pluralism, Justice, and Equality 282 (David Miller & Michael Walzer eds., 1993).

5. Communitarians have championed citizens’ role in shaping their communities. See, e.g., Michael Walzer, Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad (rev. ed. 2006); Michael J. Sandel, Justice and the Good, in Liberalism and Its Critics 159 (Michael Sandel ed., 1984). For more on communitarianism, see generally Alasdair C. MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (2d ed. 1984); Michael J. Sandel, Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (reprint ed. 1998); Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (reprint ed. 1984).