"Hypertext Publishing and the Evolution of Knowledge" had ideas in this general area back before the web existed. An excerpt: "One result of all this activity is what amounts to a review article, developed incrementally, thoroughly critiqued, and regularly updated. It takes the form of a hierarchy of topics bottoming out in a hierarchy of result-summaries; disagreements appear as argumentation structures [17]. When new results are accepted, their authors propose modifications to the summary-document; they become visible (to a typical reader) to the extent that they become accepted."

http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Hypertext/HPEK3.html#anchor3165... (to link to a relatively concrete scenario; the paper as a whole is interesting but some of it had to be just to address the very desirability of something like the web.)

Much more recent and also good: Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielsen.