Thanks for constructive & well-thought-out suggestions. I am just a programmer with a relatively short history working for the WMF but I'll try to raise your co

Thanks for constructive & well-thought-out suggestions. I am just a programmer with a relatively short history working for the WMF but I'll try to raise your concerns. I think these are interesting suggestions. You are right that the problem is actually relatively small and rests with a cadre of hyperzealous editors. However it is not clear to me that setting limits to editing behavior is really going to help -- those people will just resort to sockpuppets even more than normal. And limits to editing will also hurt a number of people who are doing a lot of good. Clay Shirky is more or less right that Wikipedia thrives on "cognitive surplus", so trying to limit the supply is just self-defeating. What we need, IMO, is some different kind of structure where being a wiki-insider with OCD isn't the absolute advantage that it is today. I don't know what that would look like.