perhaps we should vote on the people who wish to do this.
Voting works oh so well on this forum, certainly.

The ability to manage people effectively isn't a popularity contest. But whatever, maybe we'll muddle through that way.
I don't see this project being a massive time drain, because unlike most NESes, it has a definite endpoint.
Sounds kinda contrary to the OP, when you mentioned that 'certain members of the community' having to volunteer significant portions of their time. And by its very nature it doesn't have an endpoint, because it's a
history. (Unless you like to make bad predictions like Fukuyama and say that history is over, I assume that we'll do something noteworthy in the future that will require addition to this monolith.)
Thlayli said:
On Dachs' point, I also view this project as being complimentary to the NESing Wiki, since material from the History can subsequently form the basis for countless Wiki articles, just as the Encyclopedia Britannica is the primary source for so many Wikipedia articles.
But the Wiki is dead. (Long live the Wiki!

) My actual point was that I don't see how you will have any more of an incentive for people to work for this than they had for the Wiki. Of course, were either one completed, the two would be
complementary (the French seems to have addled your ability to spell in English

), but my main issue with the project, other than a diversion of resources, is that it will have the same difficulty getting people to do work that the Wiki did. We
did get some good (if prolix

) results when people actually did feel the need to edit the Wiki - the partially completed NES2 V page is good proof of that, where we got a cool graphic, a quasistandardized 'battlebox' for quickie NES statistics, and a helluva lot of material - but that obviously didn't happen for most NESes. Or even some NESes. People didn't even really edit their own player pages, for crying out loud.
So yeah, in short: why would waxing nostalgic (or writing a teaching tool, whatever you want to call this project) about past NESes in a 'History of NESing' form draw more effort than waxing nostalgic (or whatever) about them on the Wiki? I don't want to devote any more of my effort to something that isn't going to be supported until the bitter end.