I've noticed this discussion on the OpenStreetMap mailing list:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-January/065624.html & onwards
There's a few parallels being drawn there (both good and bad) to Wikimedia, to the way it's developed over time, and to what degree this should be a model for similar organisations like OSM, eg/
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-January/065648.html http://osm.gryph.de/2012/04/learn-from-wikipedia/
Quite an interesting perspective!