> If the problem is one of credibility, maybe some manual process that verifies the user is part of some prominent organization i.e. a professor in a given fiel

> If the problem is one of credibility, maybe some manual process that verifies the user is part of some prominent organization i.e. a professor in a given field or something could work. Only accepting users from prominent organization would compromise the goal of having 1000x more content than Wikipedia (see the failure of Nupedia).