Wiki-interesting

As you know, I'm an avid Wikipedian. It has often been noted that Wikipedia is basically a summary of all the information you can find on a given topic by Googling the topic. Very rarely do Wikipedians venture into book research in writing their articles.

I would thus say there are some similarities between Wikipedia and Anders Behring Breivik's 2083: A European Declaration of Independence. Although the media has mainly called it a "manifesto," Breivik (who Anglicizes his name as Andrew Berwick in the document) refers to it as a "Compendium." I think "Compendium" is a more accurate description. Like a good Wikipedia article, it is basically a compilation of the best source material he could find by Googling certain topics. A Wikipedia article has to paraphrase that material (to avoid copyright issues), but Breivik basically just cuts and pastes that material into a 1500-page Word document.

Ah, the lazy 21st century, when even our wacko murderous nutjobs can't be bothered to pen their own manifestos and instead rely on Control-C.