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Linked from Blog post WMF at Maker Faire 2008, suggest a ‘best-of Wikimedia’ item

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Commons Picture of the Year award winners (2006 & 2007)

The (featured) article Islam as an example of the positive outcome of collaboration on complex and heated topics.

Criticism of Wikipedia as an example of our ability to be self critical and not censoring our critics.

Exploding Whale, probably our most famous example of an article that we have that no other encyclopedia would ever have (and something more interesting for the kids to read).

Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python at Wikibooks as a high quality technical resource

The RSS Feed of Wikinews' frontpage as an example of different output formats and our ability to be up to the minute.

Witty lama 07:30, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The 2007 Picture of the Year finalists were astonishing. [1] 86.44.28.245 00:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Some sort of time lapse video - I reckon stuff like this demonstrates how powerful and immediate a collaborative effort can be.

Some 'top of my head' feedback re:Witty's suggestions above include a little bit of caution preaching re : Islam, particularly given the 'images' controversy (maybe 'Intelligent Design' is another complex, heated, and quality article?, the thought that the second bullet is probably best avoided, and an endorsement for the other three! - Privatemusings 11:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More timelapse videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NKNGD614nM (London Bombings), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8O-hv3w-MU (better quality)

Erik Zachte's new animated stats resembling Hans Rosling's Trendalyzer statistics: http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/Wikistats/ --Waldir 13:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Danish Study says Wikipedia is reliable here it also highlights the positive effect of a Wikiproject on citations.

w:Virginia Tech massacre and w:I-35W Mississippi River bridge are good articles about fast-evolving tragedies that wikipedia was able to describe in a fast and collaborative manner. Also, almost ever main article associated with the Solar System is now up to FA status (See here).

Series of current hot topic articles showing our depth of coverage such as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenzavirus_A , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N1 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1_genetic_structure.

Maybe a landmark Wikinews story as well?