Mentions of Wikipedia

Nelson states in the introduction that he used Wikipedia for a lot of research for the book itself. In Chapter 20 he provides some criticism and praise for the site. He critiques that owing to the strong peer-review nature of Wikipedia that editing is really a misnomer

Misnomer

A misnomer is a term which suggests an interpretation that is known to be untrue. Such incorrect terms sometimes derive their names because of the form, action, or origin of the subject becoming named popularly or widely referenced—long before their true natures were known.- Sources of misnomers...

 where submission for consideration is a more accurate description of how volunteers contribute. He also takes some credit for Wikipedia's structure in that "it is built on a key part of the Xanadu data structure

Project Xanadu

Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it an improvement over the World Wide Web, with mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper...

; each page is a series of quotations , or transclusions from separate editing operations." Nelson coined the term transclusion.