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Are Smartphones Killing Wikipedia?

Efforts to revive Wikipedia and its army of volunteer editors appear to be facing a new challenge: the smartphone. “This is a challenge for Wikipedia, which has always depended on contributors hunched over keyboards searching references, discussing changes and writing articles using a special markup code,” The New York Times writes. Now, “one of the biggest threats it faces is the rise of smartphones as the dominant personal computing device.”
 

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