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Marcus Gilroy-Ware

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Marcus Gilroy-Ware teaches online journalism at City University in London and is founder and director of VSC Creative, a multimedia production and publishing company. Before that, he graduated from Hampshire College in the USA in 2005, having studied linguistics and cognitive science.

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Why wiki?

Marcus J Gilroy-Ware is a proud citizen of Wikipedia. As openDemocracy continues its investigation into the power of peers, he describes what it is that motivates him and thousands of Wikipedians like him to contribute to the online peer-edited encyclopaedia.

The web's not dead

Is the world wide web evolving, dying or merely pining for the fjords? A young web developer takes issue with Bill Thompson’s call to dump the web. Eavesdrop on the techies slugging it out over HTML, distributed processing, < IMG > tags and illiterate waiters. The future of your desktop is at stake.