Wikipedia and the financial crisis

I don't quite understand this article, because it gets into financial things, but it's interesting. From what I picked up, it sounds like someone had written an article a few years ago warning people about a dangerous stock trading practice called "naked short selling." It wasn't published, and the author claims it was because other journalists were getting their information about the practice from wikipedia, and the relevant articles there had been controlled by one person using different accounts, who successfully painted a different picture of this practice. One of the most interesting quotes was "At some level, you can control the public discourse from Wikipedia." Wikipedia has power - that's kind of scary!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/