Feuding Wikipedia editors headed to their private top court
From msmash at Slashdot: Wikipedia, the vast online crowdsourced encyclopedia, has a high court. It is a panel called the Arbitration Committee, largely unknown to anyone other than Wiki aficionados, which hears disputes that arise after all other means of conflict resolution have failed. The 15 elected jurists on the English-language Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee — among them a former staffer for presidential candidate John Kerry, an information-technology consultant in a tiny British village and a retired college librarian — have clerks, write binding decisions and hear appeals. They even issue preliminary injunctions. Referencing the Wall Street Journal: Wikipedia editors got locked in a dispute several months ago about the biographical summary boxes that sit atop some pages of the online Read More ›