Something people might find interesting,

This week's (April 23) _Economist_ has a brief half paragraph on Wikipedia, mentioning it in passing as part of a discussion of the rise of non-traditional media online ("Yesterday's papers", pg. 59). It's perhaps most notable in the way it takes "Wikipedia works" as plain fact: a perhaps surprising but still well-established enough fact to be just mentioned in passing as evidence for an argument.

"Blogs, moreover, are but one item on a growing list of new media tools that the internet makes available. Wikis are collaborative web pages that allow readers to edit and contribute. This, to digital immigrants, may sound like a recipe for anarchic chaos, until they visit, for instance, wikipedia.org, an online encyclopaedia that is growing dramatically richer by the day through exactly this spontaneous (and surprisingly orderly) collaboration among strangers."

-Mark