It's worth reading through the discussion by the Wikipedia admins.(1) I'm disgusted. The idea that it's a fantastic thing that a large class of students are in

It's worth reading through the discussion by the Wikipedia admins.(1) I'm disgusted. The idea that it's a fantastic thing that a large class of students are invited to participate in Wikipedia occurs to only one admin, while the general reaction is to call the professor, his boss or to create a bot to stop this happening. It's knee jerk, petty and power crazed. Read elsewhere and see their instinct to block, their lack of knowledge about basics like Twitter and HN (perhaps they could look it up), and general juvenile behaviour. And the accusation of 85% plagiarism stands essentially uncontested. The Wikipedia editors have utterly destroyed the pleasure of creation that Wikipedia used to give us all. Their own biased perspectives and petty games risk destroying the usefulness of Wikipedia itself. Outsiders are treated like enemies, and extrapolating all of this leads to a desperate ending. Leadership is required. (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Class_of_1700_students_fill_Wikipedia_with_plagiarism._Response_from_prof_is_accusation_of_illegal_behaviour_by_editors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_not...