All Things Wiki

Many of us use the website Wikipedia.org on a weekly or even daily basis, but I am guessing that not many of us know its origins. I chose to research the past, present and possible future of this open source encyclopedia for a "web paper" that I created for the Website Fundamentals course that I took here at DU.
What I found was both surprising and interesting. Did you know that the funding for the site allegedly came from pornography? Or that there has been national scandal linked to the defacement of certain biographical articles? Well if not, you can see for yourself:

http://www.du.edu/~dlastowk/wikipedia/

Aside from its questionable past, I think that the Wikipedia site also raises some interesting questions regarding open access to the internet and the implications of such freedom. If anyone has any questions about either the site or the course, please let me know. Cheers.