Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-10-09/Grupthink

In a twist on the charge sometimes leveled at Wikipedia editors, the

included Wikipedia in its discussion of Grupthink last week (no, that's not a misspelling, although it's sometimes written Grūpthink).

Grupthink, the subject of a Wednesday piece by Journal columnist Aaron Rutkoff, is actually a website that allows users to create and run polls on virtually any subject imaginable. As one example of this, Rutkoff noted a Wikipedia Showdown poll, which asks site users to pick "the weirdest, funniest, craziest, and most bizarre entries" Wikipedia carries.

Leading the poll, which started running 10 May, is the

).

A cowbell segue

The deleted article on songs with cowbells also made an appearance in Sunday's New York Times as well. This was in an article exploring several recent discussions on Articles for deletion; also included were Pooky (merged), Chuck Greene (deleted), and the Constantian Society (kept). The most interesting case was Diane Farrell, a Connecticut congressional candidate whose article was deleted in July and re-created three different times. The third time, which came after the appearance of the Times story, led to a reconsideration of the original deletion because the content was not identical and presented new arguments for her notability.

Meanwhile, Wikipedia seems to be a fairly popular resource with the Grupthink community (see [1]). Another poll currently has Wikipedia leading in response to the question of what is the "best open source project".

Shockingly, considering the way

subpage, under "Internet and tech culture - Miscellaneous".