> Google Docs and Etherpad would fail to meet your definition of a page/document.
Indeed. They don't feel like pages or documents (indeed google docs is explicitly an editor and has an export step to produce a webpage), and I would not want a wiki (or wiki-like project) to be maintained in them. They serve a different niche.
> Right now we see a declining rate of collaboration on Wikipedia
For well-know reasons of deletionism and unnecessary barriers to new editors (see http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism ). The way to fix wikipedia isn't to keep changing things, it's to go back to the policies that worked in wikipedia's golden age.
Indeed. They don't feel like pages or documents (indeed google docs is explicitly an editor and has an export step to produce a webpage), and I would not want a wiki (or wiki-like project) to be maintained in them. They serve a different niche.
> Right now we see a declining rate of collaboration on Wikipedia
For well-know reasons of deletionism and unnecessary barriers to new editors (see http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism ). The way to fix wikipedia isn't to keep changing things, it's to go back to the policies that worked in wikipedia's golden age.