Communal validation

Following up on the last couple of posts, also see this P2P Foundation article on credentialing via (establishment) academic peer review, but particularly its differences with communal validation (section 1.3 and related links). An excerpt:

"In Peer Review, scientific articles are vetted by scientific colleagues. It should be noted that the process of vetting in peer production, i.e. Communal Validation, based on Anti-Credentialism, is different. See also our entry on the new trend of Open Peer Review."[...] Peer production is based on equipotential participation (see Equipotentiality, i.e. the a priori self-selection of participants, and the communal vetting of the quality of their work in the process of production itself. Peer review is based on credentialism, peer production vetting is based on Anti-Credentialism. Peer review is part of an elaborate process of institutional and prior validation of what constitutes valid knowledge; peer production vetting is a posteriory vetting by the community of participants."