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"It's one thing when kiddies at home or school do a bit of Wikipedia vandalism, but this is a reputable IT company with people who should know better," says one Wikinsider. "Or perhaps they don't realise IP addresses are tracked and logged in which case they get what they deserve."

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He analysed Wikipedia's data on the editing histories of its more than three million active contributors in 10 languages and found that "in the first three months of 2009, the English-language Wikipedia suffered a net loss of more than 49,000 editors, compared to a net loss of 4,900 during the same period a year earlier," reports The Wall Street Journal.

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Wikipedia expert and author Andrew Dalby said: "It's definitely a worrying trend. One question is, is there any new stuff to do on the site? When Wikipedia reaches three million articles, how many new articles can there be?"

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"We would never enter into a deal that restricted people's access, making Wikipedia less available rather than more available," she says.

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"There exists a severe risk in the top-10 language versions of Wikipedia about maintaining their current activity level," wrote Felipe Ortega of the research group LibreSoft. "The lack of new core members seriously threatens ... the quality of content."

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A source said: "Tasmin was upset and angry when she read what someone had done to her Wikipedia page. "The comments suggested Tasmin had only got where she was by sleeping with managers and she was only where she was due to her looks."

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One short-lived addition to the Wikipedia page on cheating sport said: "The single biggest most obvious example of cheating in the history of soccer took place in Stade de France on 18 November 2009 during the Ireland versus France play-off for qualification to the 2010 World Cup."

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"More and more people are finding less traditional heroes, through democratic means like Wikipedia," says Mr Snow. "Members of the public can start a campaign to emphasise their role and that's really positive."

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"American Women" as its "Man of the Year," there apparently being not a solo woman with sufficient gravitas on the planet that year. Some may argue that things really went off the rails in 1982, when "The Computer" got the nod. Since then a fair amount of non-persons have won: The Endangered Earth (1988), The Peacemakers (1993), The Whistleblowers (2002), The Good Samaritans (2005) and, of course, You, in 2006, whenTime wrote "It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. "

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"Right now a lot of the Wikipedia editing is done by people who are very technologically savvy," he says.

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