[philipn]

I suspect the alternative is really just more material on "long-tail," open-contributor sites that cover many of the topics that Wikipedia does, but in more detail and with different policies. For instance, the http://newslines.org site linked above, or the non-profit that I help run, LocalWiki (https://localwiki.org). Let Wikipedia just be a really great general-purpose encyclopedia -- it's not supposed to replace the entire web.