AP: Irish student hoaxes world’s media with fake quote

Shortly after learning composer Maurice Jarre died, an Irish undergrad concocted a cheesy quote from the deceased, and posted it to Wikipedia. News outlets around the world cherry-picked the quote and ran it without first doing a fact-check.

Valleywag: Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Out of a Job

His board term expired, and another board member has created a bureaucratic logjam that make it difficult to re-appoint him or appoint a new member.

P2P Foundation: Is something fundamentally wrong with Wikipedia governance processes?

Michel Bauwens refers to the classic essay on social movements, “The Tyranny of Structurelessness,” in his analysis of complains about Wikipedia.