wikipedia.org is the populist, user-created encyclopaedia. It's beginning
to be the subject of scholarly debate (like EBay and other web stuff),
since its text editing is a continuous process and the veracity of entries
is therefore in the eye of the editor, to some extent. During the US prez
elections for example, the Bush and Kerry pages were counter-edited by
opposing camps every few minutes.
Geographical entries are pretty lousy.
I have begun the process by entering David Harvey. You can alter it as
much as you like , and add others, using the edit function. Takes 10 mins
to learn how.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harvey_%28geographer%29
Places also feature prominently and the world coverage is pretty good -
here are a couple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltham%2C_London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westgarth
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University of Melbourne
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