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But Ward's wiki is topic-focused, which is itself a good layer of defense. It's full of important (to us) but abstruse subjects like Liskov-substitutability, which simply aren't going to hold the interest of the people who want to maintain exhaustive lists of Pokémon characters.



Hmm, that would suggest a decentralized network of domain-specific wikis would be a more robust model than Wikipedia's centralized one.

Back in the day, Lion Kimbro was heavily advocating for something like that using the notion of WikiNodes to interconnect the wikis: http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/action=browse&id=WikiNode&#...




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