diplomatic corps

Ever wondered how the U.S. diplomatic corps keeps track of all of its quickly changing information? Turns out, the same way all the rest of us do -- through Wikipedia.

The diplomatic wikipedia, Diplopedia, is not available to the public, though examples of pages are included in a publicly available presentation.

Started in September, 2006, it has 4,400 articles, 1,000 registered users, 650,000 total page views, and 20,000 new page views a week, according to Eric M.

Johnson of the State Department’s Office of eDiplomacy (aka "eDip") in Washington, D.C., said the New York Times.

In order...