Academic paper on Wikipedia presented at CHI 2004: "Studying Cooperation and Conflict between Authors with history flow Visualizations" http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf (announcement of that paper may also be of interest: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014782.html) Bill Venners of artima.com (http://www.artima.com) recently did an interview (http://www.artima.com/intv/wikiP.html) with Ward Cunninngham and asked what were Ward's goals when creating the wiki. http://www.artima.com/intv/wikiP.html "This case study explored the use of a wiki to support a group of artists in a rural location who were participating in a multimedia training course:" "Wiki technology for a community of practice: An open system for dynamic groups as a participatory design tool" http://www.cs.tcd.ie/~jamesh/portfolio/meta/jamesh-meta2004.rtf (NOTE rtf format ) For Publications about Wiki in a more comprehensive, better, annotated bibliography: * http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiPublications