Via Edwin Mijnsbergen, enthusiast biblioblogger for my old hometown’s library, comes the news that the Worldbank has started to use Wikipedia as a contentmanagement tool, as explained in the presentation above. Basically a few of the researchers in their Latin-America section started looking at the best format to publish or keep their research in and as a pilot project started working on a lot of the socalled country overviews on Wikipedia. This instead of setting up their own branded Wikipedia, as they were geeky enough to realise that sharing the info and allowing others to acces it and update it would improve it quicker than keeping it in house.
The Socialtext site has an overview of the project.