Growing Pains @ Wikipedia

Mon, 03/24/2008 - 10:14 — Blake

Here's A Look Wikipedia, the “encyclopedia anyone can edit,” is stuck in a weird Internet time warp, part grass-roots labor of love, part runaway success. A global democracy, beloved by high school term paper writers and run largely by volunteers, the site is controlled for now by people who seem to view revenue with suspicion and worry that too much money – maybe even just a little money – would defile and possibly ruin the biggest encyclopedia in the history of the written word.