Anarchism and Open Source...

Mano over at the OSDDDI blog posts on the similarities and differences between anarchism and open source ("Open source and politics"). One thing he says is particularly interesting about how Wikipedia revisions can yield important information about the social dynamics of a group interested in a certain subject:

On a side note, recently, for an application Judd and I are designing, we started parsing Wikipedia. the only article so far that we have not been able to parse is the one on Anarchism. It is too big. Not the article itself, but all the revisions are something like 500 megs. Anarchists are still debating over what it means.