Forgive me for spoiling the hopeful mood, but I'm not so sure the uneditable review idea would work.
Neither do I. In fact, I'm pretty sure that it won't work for the reasons that Magnus already gave. As the academic that I believe myself to be, my motivation to write such a review would be zero.
You may be right; I have no plans to act on the idea yet, I just threw it out for comment. Magnus's alternative is more in line with what Larry was suggesting, and that may be what we have to do. But I see the problem there is this: if the expert is charged with writing the article itself, what incentive does he have to pay any attention whatsoever to the Wikipedia content? Wouldn't he just write a whole new article that he can claim authorship of, totally ignoring the /development/ process that went into the wiki content?