Could this be layered on top of the current Wikipedia through browser plugins? And how would discoverability work in the context of 10,000 current versions of a wiki page? It's hard enough when there's 30 different forks on github.
edit: federated search, federated social? How would the system prevent search gaming and social gaming?
It's a bit too early to worry about 10k forks for a single page, isn't it? The typical use cases -- certainly the early ones, when it's not widespread -- might involve numbers of forks that aren't too different from GitHub.
edit: federated search, federated social? How would the system prevent search gaming and social gaming?