Getting from five recommendations to four: bury social networking?

This is a late reply... I understand the wish for integrating social networking features into the wiki site, as it allows for more direct discussing of issues evolving, but I have a fear: The fear, that it would lead to more closed groups of editors of an article, collaborating only amongst themselves, and rigorously protecting "their" articles from anyone else' edits. Can anyone refute that argument?

Social networking features could be as open as traditional message board, or closed as facebook groups. So I think it depends on the implementation.

I'm glad you share those concerns, because it's a concern that a lot of people have echoed. But as Dafer pointed out, so much depends on the implementation. The more open and broad the groups, the less likely they are to be promoting a narrow agenda. We already have WikiProjects, which have some problems but are generally pretty good about having a diversity of opinions.

I really really want to consult with the foundation on where they're going though, because I'm worried they might miss the potential for disaster.

I think i and Randomran raised loudly our concerns on the potential abuses of the social networking features.

@Randomran I think Philippe diligently transmitted our opinions to the higher-ups.

Bottom line if those features screw up blame the Foundation.