Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/WikiScholar

Background
Several efforts have sought to bring experts to Wikipedia. This has not robustly succeeded so far. Fewer initiatives have tried to bring Wikipedia to experts, in their environment. This page outlines a possible approach for doing that.

Summary

 * Take a subject area of Wikipedia
 * Port it into an academic association
 * Have the association's authors/reviewers/members vet and control quality
 * Integrate it with the association/'destination'/environment
 * Bring Wikipedia to the experts rather than experts to Wikipedia
 * Re-integrate quality changes back into Wikipedia

Benefits

 * Expert review of Wikipedia
 * Scholars more comfortable working in a moderately gated or vetted environment where credentials matter
 * Synergy with the destination's primary scholarship
 * Opportunity to report improved content back to Wikipedia given the CC-BY-SA license

Questions

 * Would Wikipedia be willing to co-brand a not entirely free-to-edit, off-Wikipedia, vetted and controlled "fork" of an academic subset of Wikipedia?
 * Would a scholarly association's members actually participate with sufficient critical mass?
 * What incentives would drive participations for the association's members?
 * Would driving traffic to the partner's destination rather than to Wikipedia harm Wikipedia's general readership and traffic?