Let me preface this by saying that I don't like the concept of marriage: two people should stay together because they love each other, not because they feel bound to each other by the prospect of a messy divorce.
Every open content project has to deal with the threat of forking. Somebody just takes the code or content and starts a competing project. This is good. It keeps the managers of the project on their toes. They will have to do a good job or else the developers will go elsewhere.
Forking is actually less of a threat for Wikipedia than it is for Linux, say: we could just cut and paste the forker's superior articles into Wikipedia. Code reuse between different programs is much more delicate.
We all agree that Bomis does an exceptional job in managing our little project, in every respect possible. Still, I think a small but real threat of forking is beneficial, even for our benevolent dictators.
The current table form of the invariant section almost seems to be designed to defeat any forking attempt. I would prefer a version which makes forkers say "Ok, you could also contribute to the project at wikipedia.com if you think they do a better job. No hard feelings."
Axel