Wikipedia and the social construction of knowledge

A great follow up for the rebooters out there: today Jon Udell is (by pure chance I guess) talking about Wikipedia, and how it’s “greatest innovation is arguably the framework it provides to mediate the social construction of knowledge, advocate for neutrality, accommodate dispute, and offer a path to its negotiated resolution”.

He then offers a few examples of what that framework is made of, examples that Jimbo Wales did not mention explicitly in his speech: disputed pages will find their way onto the list of disputed topics. When they settle down they may later migrate to the watch list of previously controversial issues, “a location for articles that regularly become biased and need to be fixed, or articles that were once the subject of an NPOV [neutral point of view] dispute and are likely to suffer future disputes.”

Nice reading. Link

Update: more from cory doct. on the matter here.
This thing is really amazing