OED vs. Wikipedia
“[T]he Oxford English Dictionary, arguably the greatest reference work in the English language…found its origins in a wiki model, whereby scholars put out the word to English speakers far and wide that they would welcome hard evidence of the earliest appearances of English words.”
Garrett pointed me to a piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus comparing Wikipedia and the Oxford English Dictionary, which points to the original source, the Oxford University Press Blog. One advantage of a wiki over a physical work: it’s less likely a building holding a wiki will have a structure inadequate to handle the weight of the paper. The piece is brief and worth the read.
