<p>Making an edit is like posting a reply (which should require some reputation); approving an edit is like voting a reply up (which requires no reputation at all).  Seems consistent to me.</p>

<p>What I don't understand is why such a huge reputation (20K/5K) is needed to do anything with these wikis.  That precludes their development at this stage and effectively deprecates their value.</p>

<p>(Part of the problem here is that 20K rep is almost nothing on a site like SO where questions get hundreds of votes but is much harder to achieve on a site like this where questions average only four or so votes apiece.  But that's a bigger issue...)</p>
