h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I like it, I really do, but I think there are some practical obstacles to overcome.
I don't think the talk of "artificial boundaries" is totally accurate. There are some natural boundaries in the writing process that are reflected in the current Editorial process. We can’t ignore the fact that factual accuracy (when talking about things) and fluency in writing is something that gets improved when an article is reviewed. We’ve all written something which in our own minds has made perfect sense, but when we read it back it turns out to be a jumble of ideas with no clear thread. The review process helps us reorganise this data into something that is digestible by other people.
The separation of these two states (unedited/edited if you like) is, therefore, essential to producing a guide that is legible and useful.
Let us not forget, as you mention in the guide entry above, that the purpose of this endeavour is to produce a functioning, factual, useful, & interesting guide. The social benefits and community that come out of this are positive forces, but they are driven by this goal of a functioning guide that we share.
This may be said to be at odds with my previous guide entry “High Society” but while that spoke of communities have duplicitous goals and here I speak of a single goal, I can assure you these ideas are compatible, I’m just over simplifying here slightly.
This discussion point was getting rather long, so I have written a Guide Entry on what I see as the way we should be going.
My reply to the UGT is the Relational Guide Mechanics: http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A87715542