Wall Street Journal associates Wikipedia with Grupthink
In a twist on the charge sometimes leveled at Wikipedia editors, the Wall Street Journal 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 List of fictional expletives. Lists were actually rather popular choices in the poll, such as List of English words containing Q not followed by U (which is also a featured list on Wikipedia), "List of songs featuring cowbells" (despite the fact that the article has since been deleted), and of course Lists of lists. Other poll options included Groupthink (inevitably), the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Nihilartikel, and the always-popular Heavy metal umlaut (see archived story).