Edward Peschko wrote:
That being said - I still think there is a big hole that could be filled in the wikimedia foundation, whilst providing good public service. And that is in the area of free-form research.
I would second Tim's suggestion to look at wiki hosting providers. If the free ones don't cut it, one of the MediaWiki developers offers a paid, supported service at http://www.wikidev.net. If you would like to easily include links to wikipedia articles inside your wiki, your installation of MediaWiki could be trivially extended to do so.
Cheers, Ivan.