> What do you mean by organizational structure?  A website organization? A 
> person?

It seems to me the answer to this is obvious:

- subtract all technology
+ add a real, live editor

Ok, so you like technology. Add the technology back and teach it
to the editor, saving everyone else from learning it. It's
1,000,000 times easier (and more efficient) to deal with an
editor than CVS. Keeps the effort focussed on the content.

Ok, so you can't afford a whole editor. Collect together a
volunteer editorial panel, ala dmoz.org. Plenty of arts
students desperate to do editorial.  This may not make sense
to technologists, but they like it.

For those unaware of editors: their job is 5% finger-wagging
at your words and 95% running around damping down chaos.
That's a fantastic 95% to get hold of. Not only that, they're
expert at manipulating crusty experts (eg coders) to produce more
words. Failing that, they can plead and beg effectively.

I must be missing something - any solution that obvious
must be wrong. Someone put a job ad in rec.arts or somewhere:

"Volunteer part-time editors wanted: get dirty learning and
building high-tech editorial systems and web publishing at
a high-profile technology site. Great for your CV".

cheers, Nigel.

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