Here is a link to the Wikinomics website, specifically to an article written by Jeff DeChambeau titled Wikipedia: Living History for the Rest of Time?
http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/02/wikipedia-living-history-for-the-rest-of-time/
Jeff talks about how in the future Wikipedia may be used as a reference for insight into today's societies and cultures and touches on some of the same points that I have made regarding history and Wikipedia; namely that because of the transparency of the articles (through the discussion pages) future historians will be able to track the evolution of debate on a topic.
Wikinomics.com is a really good site and if you are interested in this topic the I would recommend you check it out.
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That's interesting... So the idea is that you can see how the nature of debate on a subject changes over time by consulting the subjects wiki-talk?
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