Not a good year for wiki...

Wikipedia has lost a whopping 49,000 content editiors this year, up from 4,900 the previous year. That's got to hurt.

One of the reasons people are leaving Wikipedia in droves is because contend is controlled by a select group of self appointed experts who seem to have the power of life and death over articles. People who this cabal 'like' get extended biographies but people who it doesn't are told that they are 'insignificant'. One editor said he quit because he wrote several extended biographies on one person only to find it cut by an editor who clearly new nothing about the subject, but did not like the subject matter.