A wiki for you can cite.

"Truth is my best friend", Isaac Newton once said. The website SourceWatch.org is good news for anyone who just wants the facts. Wikipedia is full of information, but its only good for getting familier with a topics - learning some keywords - its unciteable. Now you frustarated academics have a quick and easy way to fill in the gaps of your research projects.

The site is monitored with a light touch, mostly by avaerage contributors but has "active participants monitor the recent changes page and make copyedits and corrections to the content, format and policy problems they see. " (Source Watch - Policy).

Discussions, portals and other tools help contributors discuss and focus their collective efforts. These are just a few of the site's features. The best function is obviously the random button. Hit it enough times and you too may find out who Pisit Charnsnoh is.

SourceWatch's sub-project, Front groups, has already triggered an inquiry of a global warming skeptics groups that ran bipartisan ads durring the 2006 Canadian Election. The group, Friends of Science, was found to be funded in part by a University of Calgary trust account. According to SourceWatch.org the major Canadian Media Company, CanWest News-Wire reported, "facing embarrassing questions raised by the online SourceWatch.org encyclopedia, the university conducted an internal audit over the past year which concluded that its trust account had been used to 'support a partisan viewpoint on climate change.'" While the university closed the trust account, it has refused to make its full audit report public. "

The Arms Trade report I am writing is going to cost me less eye-ball hours infront of academic databases because of this, me thinks. Put any projects of yours this might benefit into the comments.