The points you're making here sound a lot like what saved indymedia to some degree (well, it's not great, but on at least a few of the indymedia sites, there's a "front page view" and an "all the articles view" and crank theories about zionist conspiracies are relegated outside of the main view so that it can actually be a useful space for activist news etc).
I think the idea of forking and having an editor/author divide sounds like a good idea at least for some subjects. On the other hand with some political topics where measuring expertise is far from a clear process and open debate about it is really important for impartiality in WP, organising that hierarchy between people with editorial rights and people without could be a big problem.
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Date: 2006-09-17 03:13 pm (UTC)I think the idea of forking and having an editor/author divide sounds like a good idea at least for some subjects. On the other hand with some political topics where measuring expertise is far from a clear process and open debate about it is really important for impartiality in WP, organising that hierarchy between people with editorial rights and people without could be a big problem.