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How about a more indirect approach. You could make a Yahoo Answer's type site using Wikipedia. People are encouraged to ask questions about particular sections that they don't understand or are lacking information and then points are given for answered questions with citations.

Or you could do something like this http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/raphaelh/publications/chi... and then reward answers with points.




Check out Mahalo Answers? (http://www.mahalo.com/answers/) I think this is basically exactly what you are describing.

I do thank you for the link to this Kylin project. That was a confounded read but this team is definitely trying to do something amazing.




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