[WikiEN-l] Slipping quality as Wikipedia gets bigger (formerly Can you trust Wikipedia?)

[Bryan Derksen]

The "version rating" feature that's been put in Wikimedia software but 
not yet optimized to the point where it can be used in a production 
Wikipedia would be ideal for reducing backsliding without limiting the 
ability to edit or otherwise making things difficult. I've been looking 
forward to this feature for quite some time myself. If the problem is 
simply one of not having developers with the right combination of free 
time, interest, and skills to complete this feature, might it perhaps be 
a reasonable idea to spend some of the money raised in the fund drives 
to provide a reward to get it done? Spending money to improve the 
software's scalability could be worth it for the reduced cost of 
hardware upgrades and the reduced "cost" in terms of the volunteer 
effort of editors keeping articles clean.