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Street Tech points to the Wikipedia entry on today's transit bombings in London. It's already a very long entry by Wikipedia standards, and has seen thousands of edits. I'm guessing Wikipedia uses Greenwich Mean Time, and the first entry on the topic was posted at 9:18 this morning, so users would have been editing as the story first unfolded.

It's clear that a lot of data is being uploaded to be revised later, but it does give me an appreciation for the ways news organizations are able to collect and present data in a way that give readers an instant impression of what happened in a complex event. I understand why users would want to add to an entry, but isn't this a better case for WikiNews? Is it possible users are moving to fast, trying to create a definitive account before all the facts are in?