You may have seen the recent Chronicle piece by Casper Grathwohl advocating for a stronger cooperation between Wikipedia and the scholarly community. I find the analysis of the current Wikipedia as "the highest layer without formal vetting" very timely and spot-on ("in this unique role, it serves as an ideal bridge between the validated and unvalidated Web").

Wikimedia is currently exploring several initiatives and projects related to getting experts/academics involved in quality assessment of Wikipedia articles. Those of you (in particular Daniel, Giota, WereSpielChequers) who are interested in this topic should check out this summary of current initiatives and objectives that Erik just posted:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Expert_review

The first short-term objective in the Expert Involvement area of interest will be the AcaWP survey, but please let me know if you have ideas on other possible ways in which RCom may participate in this initiative.

Best, Dario