More stuff from me on Thursday, but the following was relevant to the Wikipedia discussion, and also too good to pass up. (Thanks for the pointers to Charles Karish of the WELL.)
From Tuesday’s “Good Morning Silicon Valley (siliconvalley.com):
Wiki-whacking: The valley’s been abuzz the past few days over Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger’s recent sniping at […]

It would be a mistake to suppose that Wikipedia operates with “nobody taking responsibility.” Arguably, every reader takes some responsibility, since every reader has the potential to correct an error. (I corrected an error in a Wikipedia entry just last week.)
Some of Wikipedia’s current critics have compared the encyclopedia unfavorably with Linux. […]

Wikipedia is an online, collectively produced encyclopedia. Any reader of Wikipedia has the power to modify or add to an entry. (Of course, this creates the possibility of someone’s sabotaging or accidentally damaging a helpful entry.) There’s an ongoing debate in a number of places about the value of Wikipedia and its likely success over […]