Here is a tiny url for the WSJ article which is in it's free features section: http://tinyurl.com/8dwbt
Excerpts:
*Wikipedia's Woes* It's been a strange couple of weeks for Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. To say the least. ... First the online, volunteer-created encyclopedia was blasted by a retired newspaper editor who found a phony bio about himself in its listings. That controversy soon became a furor in which Wikipedia's entire workings were put on trial. While the debate was still going on, Wikipedia then got an unexpected boost from a venerable science publication ...
At the heart of this is the fact that at a very basic level, Wikipedia *is*out of control ... The important thing to note is that this self-correcting mechanism also depends on Wikipedia's being fundamentally out of control. Whether you find that basic truth invigorating or frightening is something of a Rorschach test for how you feel about the Internet as a whole.
Check out Wikipedia's entries on deconstructionismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstructionism, the history of records http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramophone_record, or the Replacements http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Replacements, then consider that those entries and some 868,000 others are the work of volunteers. I find that impressive -- revolutionary, even. And if you follow those links and find something you know is wrong, fix it.
As has been done with the entry for John Seigenthalerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seigenthaler_Sr. . --REAL TIME By JASON FRY -- Jim (trodel@gmail.com)