This Wikipedia entry on Arizona’s anti-immigration law might answer some questions people have about what the exact language of the law mandates. Law Provisions The law makes it a state misdemeanor crime for anyone to be unable to prove lawful residence in the United States upon being asked to provide such proof pursuant to a [...]

Wikipedia has an elaborate process in which they choose the content that gets slated as a “featured article“—less than 1/10 of a percent of all articles on the site. (Listen to this interesting discussion—really!—among some Wikipedia power-users to get an idea of the standards used and the kind of people who have devoted so much [...]

This isn’t about the economy, but the potential impact on the Big Daddy of user-generated content is so great the topic is worthy of a post. Wikipedia, founded on the concept that anyone can edit any entry on any topic at any time, has announced an upcoming change in the way it will allow edits [...]

Looking at Wikipedia—the creme de la creme in terms of user-generated content—we saw this in the the entry for  “Late-2000s recession“: “Although the late-2000s recession has at times been referred to as “the Great Recession,” this same phrase has been used to refer to every recession of the several preceding decades.” So maybe this one’s [...]