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Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads (gizmodo.com)

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Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads

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A group of Wikipedia editors wrote 15,000 articles on US roads and highways. But after a fight over the platform's rules, they went rogue.

https://wiki.aaroads.com/

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