> Terrible idea. Why would anyone want to deal with interfacing a bunch of randomly structured databases whose tables can change at any time without warning. Ni

> Terrible idea. Why would anyone want to deal with interfacing a bunch of randomly structured databases whose tables can change at any time without warning. Nightmare. It isn't quite so bad. You can have wiki-esque volunteer-driven cooperative authoring, linking to known good versions, etc. to keep it from becoming a complete free-for-all.