We're not talking about referencing Wikipedia in an academic paper, we're talking about publishing a Wikipedia article in an academic journal.
That wasn't exactly clear to me from the original request:
I was thinking about the fact that wikipedia was still a tricky subject regarding its use for referencing in the academic world. I was wondering if it would not be possible to obtain from official academic bodies a sort of endorsement that would qualify a wikipedia article for "official" academic referencing?
Why would you want to take a Wikipedia article and publish it in a journal?
Conceivably that could be done in journals focussed on surveys, but most rules are stacked against you/WP.
Personally, I would rather go to the web and take a look at the original myself.
There may be some value of validating the article through journal publication, but honestly, I'm not sure about the value of that. I for one haven't read a journal focussed on surveys for a long time. At least in computer science, there way too many write-only journals and conferences anyway.
Dirk