<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />15 Things You Didn't Know About [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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4.4% of Wikipedia editors are PhDs.

Really ... "are" or "were"?

a) what sources did they use to assume this?
b) just because they have a PhD doesn't mean that they are not just uploading more porn nor indulging in their online sub-dom sadistic fantasies, documenting Star Trek minutiae.

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />15 Things You Didn't Know About [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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Is there a mechanism whereby your PhD is rescinded if you are caught editing Wikipedia?

Actually, it's not your Doctor of Humanities degree that's rescinded. It's just your humanity that's rescinded when you saunter into that Post-Modern Theater of the Absurd.

I don't have hard and fast numbers, but I'm pretty sure if you polled 1,000 American adults, well over 10 of them would say they hold a PhD, although about 10 should truthfully say they do. And since Wikipedia attracts folks like Ryan "Essjay" Jordan, it's not hard to imagine a 4x factor of self-reported degree inflation among Wikipedia editors.

It is a known fact that about 45,000 PhD degrees are awarded each year in the United States.

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By D. Scriber l Published: Sunday, August 15 2010 11:41 Think you know all you need to know about Wikipedia, which, as OnlineMBA states is "quite possibly ...

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