Or: 36 reasons Wikipedia is the greatest human invention, ever. (If the stock market crash and the political season are getting you down, this might make you feel better.)

Wikipedia has a problem: most of the public still does not understand how it works. This is partly because the way Wikipedia works is just incredibly weird.

China has land borders with 14 other countries – a world record. And yet you should not think of China as particularly well-integrated with its neighbours. In fact, as shown in this dramatic map, you should rather consider China to be an island.

Knol — Google’s new Wikipedia for experts — is a spectacular engineering feat. But Google’s brilliant employees always mess up the social side, and they did it again this time. Here are 5 things they need to fix.