Ask HN: Applying the wiki-model to reviews

You'll also have to deal with "fact". An article on Wikipedia about Gears of War shouldn't contain opinions, as in "the chainsaw effect is really cool!", but it can contain relevant adjacent information "A pool on GDC amongst game critics showed that 75% of them enjoy the chainsaw effect".

The problem with "facts" is that the articles will get edited by the game developers and publishers, removing the negative opinions. Users can revert these edits, but the companies have _an agenda_, they'll load the pages first thing in the morning to see what needs to be edited. And/or write bots.

While I am telling you what could go wrong, I don't have any solutions to offer. But I think you'll need to have these problems solved to make it work.

I recall reading on it somewhere the point that there are several possible formats of wiki - namely, the "discussion" format and the "document" format, and that Wikipedia has has made familiar the concept of cleanly dividing the two into separate pages. You might want to reconsider this concept and how it works in the context of a review.

The other main thing to consider is whether you can apply the same template and rules over every page - if you can, it's very straightforward to contribute.