This was, in
fact, the original intended process for writing
articles, no?
With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow? That's the whole
concept behind
the wiki/open source thing that the project is based on.
References were an
afterthought, as indicated by our horrible kludgy support for them.
Absolutely - that *was* the whole idea. Unfortunately, that idea
didn't lead to an encyclopedia people trusted, so now, in order to be
credible, we have to reference everything. It's unfortunate, but
unavoidable, I think.
I doubt it. Now we're an encyclopedia that's becoming increasingly
difficult to edit and that nobody trusts.
-Phil