DailyTech – Wikipedia Now Blocking US Congress From Making Edits

DailyTech – Wikipedia Now Blocking US Congress From Making Edits

This article begins to discuss the issues around politians editing material on Wikipedia. Seems that when you set up a completely open system this is bound to happen. As the rarified communities of open source and social networking begin to be inundated by the masses, will free and open seems as rosy. Whose community has been broken into? How big can an online community get before those who created it loose control? What is true and real and to whom? Are those who control Wikipedia simply building a new kind of information elite? Or is there really democracy there?

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