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The MPAA rating for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory actually warns of — and I quote — "Quirky Situations." OH MY GOD, IT'S QUIRKY! THINK OF THE CHILDREN! No warnings, thankfully, of "vaguely paedophilic subtexts" or "Robert Kilroy-Silk as an Oompa-Loompa."

And all we get are forty hack reporters.

Wikipedia basically works. Wikinews is producing interesting results and some good original reporting. Now the LA Times is running an experiment in wikified opinion pieces: they put up their June 17th editorial on a MediaWiki installation as what they call a Wikitorial. (They're also trying to turn "wiki" into a verb: an action taken upon a source text.)

The result is interesting: a considerably more polemical opinion piece with surprisingly good factual support (and only one Godwination). And of course a counterpoint was promptly split off (by Jimbo, no less).

Wikinews operates strictly to the Wikipedia Neutral Point Of View policy, and people couldn't really see editorial opinion working on a wiki. But so far the good wackos seem to be outnumbering the bad wackos.