Problematize the potential of collaborative peer production

Despite all positive facts of teamwork, collaborative peer production on Wikipedia does have its drawbacks. When working in a large team, it is often difficult to define contributions of single members. Even though Wikipedia is an anyone can edit encyclopedia, the actual content distributors are a minority of Wikipedia users. Wikipedia offers no authorship to contributors and may cause disputes between Wikipedian as to who did what. As there are no requirements to referencing, the content displayed on Wikipedia may be subjected to plagiarism. As all edits are published immediately, inaccurate and inadequately researched information may mislead users of the article to acknowledging the wrong information. In addition, conflict may be raised between Wikipedians with varied views on the topic and editing each other’s work to suit their own interest. Wikipedia is also subjected to vandalism. Its open content characteristic allows anyone, even vandals, to purposely mislead or delete all the information from the encyclopedia.