The most enlightening thing in this article is a graph which shows numbers of editors has declined by 25% while articles are more than doubling over past 8 years. There must obviously be breaking point sooner or later where Wikipedia has more garbage then useful bits. My take away is that Wikipedia's model of small tribes of editors is not working and is demonstrably unscalable.
What could be the replacement? How about Stackoverflow style reputations that one must accumulate overtime and then they translate to privileges. The beauty of Stackoverflow is not its content but this community model they have sharpened to almost perfection. It feels far more scalable than Wikipedia's arcane model of emulating print world editorial team and beautifully takes advantage of gamification combining rewards with career profile.
What could be the replacement? How about Stackoverflow style reputations that one must accumulate overtime and then they translate to privileges. The beauty of Stackoverflow is not its content but this community model they have sharpened to almost perfection. It feels far more scalable than Wikipedia's arcane model of emulating print world editorial team and beautifully takes advantage of gamification combining rewards with career profile.