Comments from guy who wrote the NASApedia idea.

I am indeed thrilled to see you come here Nasa-verve=D.

I too would like to see Wikipedia get a WYSIWYG rich text editor...something similar to wikias/mind touch. It would make it much more intuitive and nooby friendly.

My goal in the collaboration between NASA and Wikimedia is make some of NASA's content/expertise more available. NASA publishes thousands of fact sheets and other general summaries, many of which are of little use to the general public. What I'd like to see is NASA write some short quality wiki/encyclopedic entry summarizing their missions/events which could be more readily "consumed" by the public than 50-page pdf summaries and 10 page fact sheets. (There's also the case of redundancy in which wikipedia contributors have to go through and summarize what NASA has put out...I'm sure NASA could do a fairly good job if given the chance).

Aside from articles, NASA also publishes dictionary and acronym lists which could be used in Wiktionary.

Then there's media. Despite virtually all of NASA's work being in public domain, their media is so scattered among individual bases and sites, that virtually no one can find what their looking for.

There's also an idea about each mission/operation having its own wiki, which I too would support.

I do hope you can convince NASA to some type of collaboration with Wikimedia projects, it would bring great PR ^.^

The details for the collaboration still need to laid out, you're welcome to help out=D.