Wikipedia: at last, the full story

For years I've read about the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and used it. Now there's an article that really tells you what you need to know about the encyclopedia written by anyone who wants to contribute to it. Did you know: 'Wikipedia's article on Islam has been a persistent target of vandalism, but Wikipedia's defenders of Islam have always proved nimbler than the vandals. Take one fairly typical instance. At 11:20 one morning not too long ago, an anonymous user replaced the entire Islam entry with a single scatological word. At 11:22, a user named Solitude reverted the entry. At 11:25, the anonymous user struck again, this time replacing the article with the phrase "u stink!" By 11:26, another user, Ahoerstemeir, reverted that change - and the vandal disappeared. When MIT's Fernanda Viégas and IBM's Martin Wattenberg and Kushal Dave studied Wikipedia, they found that cases of mass deletions, a common form of vandalism, were corrected in a median time of 2.8 minutes. When an obscenity accompanied the mass deletion, the median time dropped to 1.7 minutes.' There may be a new form of government waiting to happen here. A system that self-corrects without any authority: holy cow: fuck me with out-of-date Britannia entry.