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Wiki boss has picked the wrong fight for democracy

It's only when Wikipedia isn't there you realise how incredibly influential it has become.

Just try a few random searches. Yesterday I Googled "Scottish independence referendum" and top of the results list was the Wikipedia entry. Then I searched "global warming", which also served up Wikipedia's page as number one. Even searching something relatively obscure, like "pensions crisis", Wikipedia emerged top of the results table. Almost every non-news search I made came up Wiki – except interestingly, Celtic Football Club, where the club's own site is top. But even here Wikipedia was third.