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[Thesis] Fix typo

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......@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ but that was pretty much it.
Albeit edit filters may not be the ideal mechanism to deal with hoaxes, what they can do effectively is prevent someone from moving hundreds of pages to titles containing ``on wheels''~\cite{Wikipedia:OnWheelsVandalism}, thus sparing vandal fighters the need to track down and undo these changes, allowing them to use their time more productively by for example fact checking unverified claims and hence reducing the number of fake aardvarks and increasing the overall credibility of the project.
%Outlook: centralisation, censorship
It is impressive how in under 20 years ``a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia'' to quote new media researcher Anrew Lih~\cite{Lih2009}.
It is impressive how in under 20 years ``a bunch of nobodies created the
world's greatest encyclopedia'' to quote new media researcher Andrew Lih~\cite{Lih2009}.
This was possible, among other things, because there was one Wikipedia to which everybody contributed.
As the project and its needs for quality control grew, a lot of processes became more centralised~\cite{HalGeiMorRied2013}.
It is, at the end, easier to maintain power and control in a centralised infrastructure.
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