Peter Bartlett wrote:
Keeping two copies around sucks up precious maintenance resources (in terms of keeping both copies up-to-date with one another)
I think this is not the right way to think about "maintenance resources". Volunteers aren't employees, so we can't tell them "Oh, the management committee has determined that our quality control goals are best met if we focus on activity X, so do that, even though I know activity Y is a lot more fun."
Volunteers who want to keep both copies up-to-date want to do that. We can't re-assign them to something else we think is more productive.
and creates endless debate about the encyclopedicness of the subjects.
Well, that much is true! ;-)
--Jimbo