Democracy, sh’mockery via info NeoGnostic
Congratulations to Phil for nailing this one: "The point really is that it's not the wisdom of the crowds, it's a gentle dictatorship of the chaperones" - which is slightly more pointed than the Chris Wilson/Slate article he cited. He only noted "the wisdom of the chaperones". He, in turn was referencing a multi-authored paper (PDF), "Power of the Few vs. Wisdom of the Crowd: Wikipedia and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie" by Ed Chi and colleagues. To be fair, Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, is supposed to have said it first; he is quoted as saying, "most of the work on Wikipedia is done by a small number of users" in 2004 [URL no longer active].Does this affect our view of a major Web resource? Should it?Possibly. Those of us who have been advocating its use have mostly based our arguments...
Pan yn chwilio am gyfarwyddiadau, dwi unai'n defnyddio multimap neu Google maps, mae'r ddau yn wych. Sylwais heddiw bod multimap rwan yn danogs erthyglau Wikipedia. Dwi'n gweld hwn yn ddefnyddiol iawn pan yn paratoi i ymweld â rhywle newydd. Mae'r llun isod yn dangos canol Caerdydd sydd ag ambell i erthygl, ond sbiwch ar hwn o ganol... 
The Wikipedia article for Rhondda’s Labour MP Leighton Andrews is being vandalised.
Interesting elements of Andrews’ career are being removed from the article only to be restored by conscientious editors.
It is like a virtual tug-o-war played out publically in a small niche of Welsh cyberspace.
So what is this Wikipedia thing ? Wikipedia is the world’s largest encyclopaedia and it’s all available for free online.
The encyclopaedia was created by a collaborative effort involving people from across the world.
If there isn’t an article on a noteworthy subject, then create it.
If you want to contribute or edit an article, you can.
Thus in the example of the Leighton Andrews article, certain facts have been removed.
References to political researcher David Taylor... 
Aberdare’s greatest living comedian and entertainer joins the pantheon of greats at Wikipedia.
Read the article today…... 
Not according to Wikipedia. It's hardly an authority, I know, but it does seem a bit odd that the page on unionism refers only to trade unionism, and then unionism in Ireland, Scotland, Romania and Moldova.So why the glaring omission? Welsh Tories clearly see themselves as unionists. David Davies AM even insisted on being called by his party's full name - the Conservative and Unionist Party - during one plenary session last term. Other notable self-confessed unionists are Peter Hain and Leighton Andrews. Perhaps they should all club together and rustle up a page for Wikipedia. Even the nationalists have one of... 
The Freecycle Network is an American business that runs freecycling groups across Wales, including Cardiff Freecycle currently Wales’ largest freecycling group.
Rhondda Cynon Taff Ecycle is NOT a part of the (American) Freecycle Network (or TFN). We are an independent local group, owned, run, and managed by local people.
Perhaps it is time we wrote a brief ‘history’ for our group now that we are nearly two years old.
Many freecyclers are unaware of the controversies surrounding the American Freecycle Network. Below is a brief summary taken from Wikipedia. Feel free to add to the article at Wikipedia.
Freecycle Network Controversies
* Corporate Sponsorship - In February 2005, Deron Beal accepted TFN’s first corporate support of $130,000 from Waste Management,... 
I did a google search for a list of countries at war. Instead it gave me a list of countries with McDonald's franchises. It looks like McDonald's has failed where the British empire succeeded: colonising Africa. So what do you do if you're in the Congo and gagging for a McFlurry?Do you dodge the McHutus and the McTutsis and treck thousands of miles to the nearest golden arches in Egypt?Or do you head south through the McGenocide and the desert towards South Africa and hope that you come across a trot-thru for you and your camel along the way?[The countries in grey have no...