But for now, there's no pressing need unless and until we find chaos
descending on us from the lack of constant oversight.
Which really means that its important for all of us, every contributor, to feel vested with responsibility. We are all responsible for oversight.
Chaos will come if a) we are unable to work together to provide that oversight or b) if too many of us don't feel that responsibility (the equivalent of a representative democracy where only 40% vote and only 2% ever run for office).
The hosting of Wikipedia I can continue to do for no charge for the foreseeable future. Even if Wikipedia traffic were to grow by a factor of 10, I would be willing to absorb all the bandwidth and hardware costs. If it grows beyond a factor of 100 or 1000, obviously, alternative solutions would have to be found.
Speaking of which, I think it would be great if we started thinking about mechanisms for distributing the hosting of Wikipedia. Does anyone have any thoughts on how a (to some degre) distributed solution could work?
--tc