One of the fascinating things about the Wikipedia is that it has become a more significant source of information for large numbers of people, the mechanisms through which content is vetted have become much more elaborated. Understanding this process is helpful in breaking down the print knowledge is good, web knowledge is bad dichotomy, which reinforces the dichotomy between facts and opinions that is drummed into the minds of high school students. Because of the self-documenting nature of the internet, there are a lot of articles about the problems that emerge on Wikipedia and the corresponding efforts at crafting new solutions. Social norms, new genres, institutional mechanisms that act as gatekeepers for the production of knowledge exist in every society, but these processes are often opaque and invisible. Wikipedia can reveal the need for these processes and the consequences of different alternatives. John Monberg