I ran across an interesting article in The New Republic about Jonathan Schilling - a man who monitors HRC’s Wikipedia page.  Near the end of the piece, the author does a bit of interviewing with another Wikipedia defender who monitors BHO’s page.  Both pages are long and full of references, but considering the viscous nature of this primary fight, I am surprised that only Obama’s page is locked.  Have the Wikipedia vandals already decided she won’t win and thus its not even worth vandalizing her page anymore?

I am quite impressed with the amount of time and energy these guys have devoted to their respective causes.   They have tasked themselves as editors of a system designed to not have a single editor.  I do not envy them; keeping the pages clean cannot be easy, especially with the heated primary we have right now.

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