The power of Wiki

To see the incredible power and speed of a hurricane, just turn to your news network of choice for footage of Katrina. To see the incredible power and speed of a wiki, turn to wikipedia.org's page about Hurricane Katrina. You can find it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

At approximately 10,000 words and growing, this user-created and user-edited site is a wealth of information about the storm that stopped American in its tracks. The article is a thorough treatment of the storm’s development, devastating effects, and socio-political fall-out. Of course wiki articles are a work in progress and are only as good as their editors. In the section labeled Advance Weather Forecast a red “caution” graphic indicates that the “neutrality of this section is disputed” and a link is provided to a “talk page” where one can read about the disputed content. It should come as no surprise that a document edited by a large number of people is a bit disjointed, but what it lacks in cohesiveness it more than makes up for in thoroughness. Read it for yourself and see what you think.