Hi Kent, 
> 
> IMHO, the criteria for being able to edit the wiki should be lower than the
> present requirements on "being a Gentoo Dev".

Only a small subset of official pages is locked, everything else is free to 
edit for anyone who signs himself up.

> 
> I'd be interested in seeing if theres' a way to have "vetted" edits of some
> kind, ala a patchqueue/pull-merge feature but for wikis, allowing a user to
> edit a page as they see fit, but the changes are only visible to them until
> they mark their edits "done" where it can be pushed to a moderation queue
> for somebody trusted to check over.
> 

That exists and is used in the German Wikipedia.
(Basically, you get the last "vetted" page by default, with a small message 
saying "newer versions available".)

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfri...@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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