And all we get are forty hack reporters.

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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.