Stan-
It occurs to me that an amusing future use of
donations would be to
give $1-5k grants to various notables, for the purpose of reviewing
a small number of articles in their areas. Most would just do the work
(or assign to a grad student) and move on, but if 1 in 10 got hooked,
they could add a lot of valuable content.
The kind of people who charge $1-5k for a review usually don't have the
time to "get hooked", or they already would be. It would be a total waste
of money until we have a systematic internal peer review process. Many
errors are so blatant that you don't need a Ph.D. to spot them. You just
have to look for them. Typically, once a Wikipedia article gets above a
certain length, only a minority of people working on the article has
actually read the complete piece.
Regards,
Erik