The election season is a great excuse for people to be writing essays about the projects. This isn't limited to those running in the elections (though I wish more of the candidates would write actively about their thoughts and ideas).
Aaron Swartz has started a series of such essays. The latest one suggests something I have long suspected, that the huge body of new and anonymous contributors, who often make the first serious stab at an article or provide a needed injection of expertise, are as important to the 'pedias development (if not more so) than the core of dedicated editors.
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
Is anyone else writing long essays these days? Where are they kept, and how categorized?
++SJ