Future Now: Open source and the production of knowledge:
"The assumption that contributors share a common understanding of what defines a decent article on a subject, what constitutes important facts, and what sources can be trusted to back up claims, which can be used to guide the growth of Wikipedia, may not be warranted. If the open source model is to be extended from software development into areas where debate over ground rules and epistemology are regular affairs-- as in history and encyclopedia writing-- this problem will need to be solved."
designing anything new with the concept of open source will sure run into problem. Looking back at the debate of credibility of wikipedia, I think it's inevitable to have arguments and debates around rules and etc. How did the encyclopedia come to its own term? I think we should read this.
