Congressman Rivera vs Wikipedia

Politico article "Rep. David Rivera war with Wikipedia" is a great example of a high profile figure taking-on Wikipedia as part of his PR/ branding strategy.  Actually, in Rivera's case, it's more like damage control.  Take a look. 

The article ends with another amusing anecdote: apparently during 2008 there were fierce edit wars over whether to call Obama "Kenyan-American", and editors changed Hillary Clinton photo to one of a walrus.  I love Wikipedia, but don't these people have jobs/ families?!
- sezflom

Why has Wikipedia succeeded?

In line with Berno's link (http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/09/a_fork_in_wikip.php), here are two of the better of many, many articles which have tried to get to the bottom of how Wikipedia manages to stay coherent when so many other crowd sourcing projects ultimately become little more than gibberish.

Slate traces the history of wikipedia through the Jesus entry: http://www.slate.com/id/2281294/

Spiegel has a long article which explains the inner workings of the wikipedia process by looking at the entry for the Danube Tower:  http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,690402,00.html