Eddie

On November 9, 2006, the "Contact us" page for the Wikimedia Foundation ("WMF"), owner of the Wikipedia domain, was changed to show its mailing address to be 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor, in San Francisco. Just over a year later, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article about the then-in-progress move of the WMF from St. Petersburg, Florida, its original home. A SF area phone number did not appear on the contact page until January 25, 2008. It was not until October 27, 2009 that the WMF announced its move to "Our new offices at 149 New Montgomery" "not far from the old home"! WHY in the world did they have their mail directed to offices they didn't occupy for almost THREE YEARS??

http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=C...

http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-11-30/business/172...

http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=C...

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/wikimedia-finds-a-n...

Located in the "navigation", "interaction", "toolbox" and "languages" boxes along the left edge. Did the scilons finally manage to take over Wikipedia, or are the wiki-potentates yanking on the Church of Scientology's chain again?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-meter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

What could account for the odd belief that only those who have been blocked or banned from editing Wikipedia can see flaws in it?

I have seen this odd behavior before not only here at Y!A, but also on a number of other websites also not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation. What could account for this?

Wikipedia is supposedly "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", but it now appears that the WMF wants it to be a news organization, too. In its newly released 2008-2009 Annual Report, the WMF extolls Wikipedia's reportage of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks (pp. 10-11), and crows over its website traffic as compared to six news media websites (pp. 20-21) (three other reference sites are also mentioned). Further, the WMF's "Strategy Task Force" is questioning the continued existence of Wikinews, given the prevalence of "topical content" already on Wikipedia. What is going on here?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a...

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Expa...

Wikipedia offers quite an array of "barnstars" and other awards for "achievement on the wiki". Which one do you think is the most silly and why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Awards

There are some critics of Wikipedia whose writings inevitably send wiki admins and other power users into spasms of fear, paranoia and hostility. Which critic of Wikipedia do you think has been most strongly regarded as an arch-heretic against The Way of The Wiki and "free culture", and why do you think so?

It was supposed to be called "Truth in Numbers", and there were a whole bunch of YouTube videos about its making two years ago, but since then nothing.