[Wikipedia-l] The "Casio Effect"

[Tesla Coil]

On 4 Sep 2002, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
> There was a notion of teaming up groups of Wikipedians around 
> some areas of Wikipedia content - operating systems, unix, punk
> rock or the Roman Empire.
>
> They should have some infrastructure (namespace ? mailing list ?)
> to rely on in order to coordinate, review and discuss. Not to 
> mention do some planning and quality assurance.

What happened to this idea?  Against this suggestion, so much
talk of "experts" appears a wish that collective intelligence
will arrive as embodied by individuals and spare the problem 
of acheiving better organization of it in social form.  

I believe, however, that it would be more practical for SIGs 
to be formed around wider topic areas than those cited above,
for example, "History" rather than "the Roman Empire."