Disputes Regarding Edits

We don't need to trust a computer to guide the user through unknown unknowns; really, Wikipedia doesn't stand out of the cognitive intelligence of its programming. The code itself is elegant, relatively simple, and well-designed. The intelligence of Wikipedia is in its collective editors and contributors.

What if we just set up some groups for new users? You could be added to a group of new users possibly based on a very short, optional questionnaire, and these groups could be assisted voluntarily by editors. The editors could act as mentors to these groups, possibly with a special page that tracked the changes made by their group members.

By making all of this voluntary, we could allow new users who want to get started on their own to do so, and only those editors interested in helping out new users would act as mentors. It seems then much less likely to get a conflict of interests between a voluntarily helpful mentor editor, and a new Wikipedian. By breaking these folks up into groups, veteran editors who are interested in helping newbies could be easily networked with a small group of newbies who want help, perhaps combating what would otherwise undoubtedly be an overwhelming sea of new faces.