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sorry I do not understand: who is in charge of importing the data anyway, if not the gatekeeper?

Also, i mean that the difference with forking source code is that you can work on something that will not get accepted into the mailine, but is useful to you, or your organization.

It does not seem to me that you can have a private wikipedia to which you refer people, it would be useless. Same with forks, if an officially blessed fork does not exist, you get anarchy and all of them become unreliable, cfr the rails foreign key plugins for reference: when strong active and clear leadership miss, projects fade into failure.

OTOH if you just want "easy merge" that does not seem to replace the gatekeeper, you just made him more visibile.

But if I am missing soemthing, I'd be happy to understand :)