THE FATE OF EXPERTISE AFTER WIKIPEDIA by Lawrence Sanger (warning this link may move soon.... )

ABSTRACT
Wikipedia has challenged traditional notions about the roles of experts in the Internet Age. Section 1 sets up a paradox. Wikipedia is a striking popular success,and yet its success can be attributed to the fact that it is wide open and bottom-up. How can such a successful knowledge project disdain expertise? Section 2 discusses the thesis that if Wikipedia could be shown by excellent survey of experts to be fantastically reliable, then experts would not need to be
granted positions of special authority. More....

WHO SAYS WE KNOW
On the New Politics of Knowledge
By Larry Sanger