Rick wrote:
How does giving someone special "approver" ranking jibe with the supposed equality of Wiki?
Well, Rick, I'm appreciative of your concerns. But I wonder what ideas you might offer for a viable methodology for selecting particular revisions of articles for a 1.0 release?
Wikipedia the website and Wikipedia the process are excellent. The strength is the openness. But of course the openness means that at any given moment in time, an article may be full of nonsense, or may be simply grammatically incomplete. Sometimes articles have things like <need to write more here> in the middle of them.
So, we need to have trusted people go through and flag the articles.
YES, that trust should be widely distributed, and yes the process should be open and transparent. But it also seems to me that it needs to be _trustworthy_ first and foremost.
--Jimbo