"Wikibooks receives nearly half a billion page views annually, but has hardly featured in academic debates on open access. Caroline Ball argues that by working with the platform to create open educational resources academics have much to gain."
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/10/22/does-academia-need-a-wakeup-call-on-wikibooks/

6 years later, this seems prescient;

"When all discussion takes place under the eye of software, in a for-profit medium working to shape the participants’ behavior, it may not be possible to create the consensus and shared sense of reality that is a prerequisite for self-government. If that is true, then the move away from ambient privacy will be an irreversible change, because it will remove our ability to function as a democracy."

#MaciejCegłowski, 2019

https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm

#democracy