How Wikipedia works...

[delanvital]

http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789354

A good read. For example the prioritising:

"In practice, deciding what is trivial and what is important is not easy. How do you draw editorial distinctions between an article entitled “List of nicknames used by George W. Bush” (status: kept) and one about “Vice-presidents who have shot people” (status: deleted)? Or how about “Natasha Demkina: Russian girl who claims to have X-ray vision” (status: kept) and “The role of clowns in modern society” (status: deleted)?"