Sometimes we are too busy to notice things that are right in plain sight. I enjoy browsing wikipedia just as I enjoy browsing a real dictionary. You never know what gems you will find when you aren't really looking for something in particular. Would it surprise you to know that wikipedia is just one of nine projects managed by the Wikimedia Foundation?

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There is a method to our madness here today. You see, we've talked about CIA black sites and enemy combatants previously. We know we have a huge problem right now regarding what to do with all these people we've imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Well Jackrabbitscrewball, as always, has a solution and you're gonna love it!

You'll just need to bear with me for a short stretch and then you'll agree this is pure genius.

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The other day I was looking for interesting stuff on wikipedia. I typed in a word, then followed the disambiguation link into the realm of pure word play and fun. I clicked on something that interested me and to my complete shock found a page that had been defaced with spam. I clicked the history tab and found that there were 2 edits within just the last minute. One from some IP address 192.232.155.215 and another from someone called Cluebot. I don't spend a lot of time browsing wiki history pages so I was a bit confused at first. It turns out that Cluebot is a robot that runs automatically on the wiki servers to detect and revert vandalism.

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Wikis are everywhere. Not only has the entire sum of human knowledge already been transferred to wikipedia, but every company, team, project, and special interest has their own wiki. What changed? What happened to the Web? What about Web 2.0? How do all these wikis fit in?

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