Re:Editorial control (Score 1)

I believe that wikipedia is designed to be the unstable path and the journals, white papers etc are the stable version. The very design of wikipedia is to be flowing, quick, and easy. I think the alternative is to have previous edits logged and available to vote on for a short time after each submission so if a know-it-all, who actually knows very little, makes changes, other knowledgeable people could over ride it. This would create more of a stable collection of commonly accepted knowledge which of course still may be inaccurate but more people would agree with it. Mob rule and all that. ;)