Huh? Much information was always centralized in a few major encyclopedias and large publishers' publications!
Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. So creation of content is being decentralized.
So you're saying that because information was always centralized, it's good to keep it centralized?
And you obviously know nothing about how Wikipedia works. Anyone can edit? lololol anyone can edit until a sysop say you can edit.
Creation of content couldn't be more centralized, there's one and only one version of a given subject and which version gets published is dictated by a few sysops that have other buddies as sysops too.
It's all open publication license..... Anyone can download the database dump of all the content and share....
what exactly are you going to do with a db dump?
And so far, nobody's created any peer-to-peer Distributed Wiki protocol alternative to even try to replace using a centralized website, yet.
WP is still a step away from centralization; however.
Why you are stuck with peer-to-peer in your head? YOu can have decentralized information using good old internet protocol for that.