I think that is one of the keys
Admitting, I could not program my way out of a paper bag, and programmers I have talked to in the past want way to much money that little old me cant afford.
Not to say your idea has no merit, it does, I just cant afford it and don't have that kind of know-how. Sadly!
As for messy, there will be groups(editors) that actually do the wiki entries that will have to do some verifying before entries go live which will make the process even that much longer. I'm sure it will be messier in the beginning but once we get the hang of the process it'll pick up speed.
I guess out of curiosity, since you brought it up, would you be willing to assist by possibly making a bot/crawler to do this, or maybe even the search utility that results come in in a webpage looking results page or text files? Whatever.
