Ayn Rand and Wikipedia

On Wikien-L recently there was renewed discussion, around whether Knol would be better or worse than Wikipedia.  In that thread I stated:<blockquote>My take on her view, is that she was very anti-committee, anything created by committee was almost always fatally flawed vis a vis items created by an individual.  Instead of the final result being "here is '''an''' item which is the ultimate expression of X", you would have "here are several items, each individually created, which each are '''an''' expression of X, you the consumer decides which is the best"</blockquote>

<blockquote>I'm not quite sure if the Knolian approach to how the consumer decides is really going to work or not.  But then every system has flaws.  I'm  willing to give it a shot and see.  I don't even think the Knol architects really know what's going to happen or what they want to happen until a situation appears directly in front of them.  The Knolian approach '''does''' however  almost entirely remove the aspect of edit-warring doesn't it?  And edit-wars are really at the heart of 85% of WP problems. &mdash; wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "Why Google's online encyclopedia will never be as good as Wiki...", 22 Sep 2008 by Will Johnson</blockquote>