http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/stalder/index.html

Article in [First Monday] by F. Stalder and J. Hirsh. Analyzes the NetTime mailing list, the WikiPedia project and the NoLogo web [site.]

from the abstract:

"...increasingly we can observe this collaborative approach being applied to areas beyond the coding of software. One such area is the collaborative gathering and analysis of information, a practice we term "Open Source Intelligence"."

Is the Consumerium wiki relevant ? http://consumerium.org/