Hmm, Doctrinal WIKI, doesn't strike me as a good idea.....
I understand the desire for lesson resources, but I don't see where LDS.ORG fits the problem. I do not think it is a fundemental problem with a repository for lessons, I have even debated such a thing for myself, but I do not think the IMPLEMENTATION would work.
I see two implementation extremes:
1. LDS Wiki
People come to post their lesson ideas, resources, links to whatever. Peer review or moderation weeds out the bad.
2. Correlated published lesson resources.
People submit ideas to a correlating body (existing church dept, or community panel). Good ideas / lesson plans are published. Bad ones get a nice email back to the submitter.
The problem I have is that the wiki would never work. We on the technical forum have to work really hard to keep threads here from turning into doctrinal debate. Opening a forum or wiki to such is almost guaranteed to become either a horribly apostate resource, or a flame-war. The only benefit of such an open implementation would be the short cycle between submit and publish.
A correlated publishing group would work, but how is that different than the current published manuals and periodicals? If I send you my happy tithing story, and you publish it on LDS.ORG, how is that different than putting my story in the next months Ensign?
So I have a few ideas:
1. Put printed church materials online. Make submitting suggestions easy and fluid. It would be great for me to be able to print my lesson materials from LDS.ORG, and get references to Apr. conference. I could even suggest a few references or corrections for existing church publication depts. to include.
2. Allow peer reviewed lessons consisting of existing LDS.ORG resources.
I thought an interesting social project would be to allow people to footnote scriptures. It would be great to build a topical guide of community provided scriptural references. If you limited posts to short comments and a scriptural reference, it should be easy to moderate. It would also be difficult to pull information out of context, since the verse would always appear in context. This would kind of be like de.lico.us for scriptures. (
http://del.icio.us/)
This idea would work well for other published works, like the Ensign, and online talks. This would allow 'Lesson Plan' type resources, but keep things from straying to far from the original source's intent.
3. Unofficial resource.
Try the wiki. Do not endorse it at all. See what happens. If it works out, make it official.
I would think that an unofficial wiki would at some point or another cause heartburn at CHQ. I worry that even percieved hostility to the community or the site admins would disenfranchise people. For this to work, I think an amnesty period to get the site working, and a clear purpose and exit strategy for the admins would be needed.