Is there a suitable place on-wiki to put a summary of some of the points in this thread?
Carcharoth
If you don't mind the recursion, I've posted some of the discussion so far to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Issues/Long-term_discussions
which is part of the still-conceptual Community Facilitation project [[WP:CF]]. If a few more people join in and help frame it and where it is going, perhaps it will take off.
SJ