PCWorld - Is Wikipedia teetering on the edge of disaster? That's the question Stephen Foley addresses today in the British newspaper The Independent. In Foley's view, Wikipedia is in the middle of a zero sum game: either it deals with inaccuracies due to Wiki-vandalism or it comes to a grinding halt as readers wait for editors to approve changes -- the so-called "flagged revisions" policy.
The world's largest crowd source experiment has been an astonishing success thus far. Since its founding in 2001, Wikipedia has become a gigantic source of information with more than 12 million articles (almost 3 million of which are in English). In addition, its subject matter has far more depth and detail than many professionally edited encyclopedias available today, including Encyclopedia Britannica, which is experimenting with the online collaboration that Wikipedia popularized.
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