Good Economist article on Wikipedia
The Economist has a great summary of the tension in the Wikipedia community around the correct threshold for article inclusion.
My brother, John, is an admin, and so I’ve gradually been made aware of the kind of disputes that the article alludes to. (Does the “Traditional Irish Breakfast” deserve its own article, in addition to that about the “Traditional English Breakfast”? John spent many hours resolving such questions.)
It’s cool to see an outlet like The Economist give such accurate coverage of an issue that actually is pretty important (the battle for overall policy in arguably the largest collaborative project yet undertaken by humanity), but full of such arcane technical detail that very few outside the web community have much understanding of it.
If you’re interested in reading more, Andrew Lih (currently working on a book about Wikipedia) has a blog full of lucid posts on Wikipedia policy.