In one possible future Wikipedia editors are vetted by an independent auditing commission consisting of topic experts, an Institutional Review Board and a jury

In one possible future Wikipedia editors are vetted by an independent auditing commission consisting of topic experts, an Institutional Review Board and a jury of their peers. Once vetted they are given a cap and gown that they must wear while committing their edits. They would also be allowed to put the letters W.E.C and the number of pages they are considered arbiters of after their name and on their facebook profile. All Wikipedia Editors Confirmed would be allowed to park in handicap parking spots and be given preference in matters of tenure at all educational institutions. Order would prevail, knowledge would be defended, und so weiter. In another possible future a collection of bots will textmine wikipedia edits in realtime and many wikipedia janitors will rely on botscores to determine which edits are fraudulent. Advanced wikipedians will become cyborganisms devoted to spotting evidence of bad intent, their skills will be in high demand as corporate negotiatiors and wikipedia will languish as the cognitive bandwidth of it's most effective members is coopted into helping facebook fend off it's antitrust lawsuit and making the democratic parties stranglehold on national politics unassailable. In another possible future it is revealed that Chris Poole is actually Jimmy Wales father due to bizarre accident involving a time machine and an ice cream sandwich, and that the entirety of the wikipedia project is in fact an elaborate troll designed to spell out a very rude word in babylonian when viewed from the right angle from three light years away. (that is a very disturbing future indeed).