SLWiki Idea

I've actually toyed around with the idea of making a collaborative scanlation portal/site before, and even now. Generally, it works like this:

→Raw providers upload or post downloads of manga on the site
→People who are interested to work on it, but only have a specific skill (e.g. graphics, typesetting, TL, editorial work, etc.) mark their interest on the manga
→Eventually, there will be enough people who are interested in the same title that a team can be formed around that specific work
→Each manga also has its own project page so that each team can collaborate within and so on

So basically, it's like a publicly open scanlation wiki, much like TLWiki and Baka-Tsuki revolutionized TL work on things by making stuff openly available and letting people who are interested apply to TL stuff, and then project teams self-manage.

Of course, it will be much more complicated, since it's not just plaintext we're dealing with, but images.
Plus, there has to be some sort of standard of quality, since nowadays, we've got less-than-stellar translators and less-than-stellar image editors all working on good manga that deserve much better than shoddy work.

It's all kind of just brewing in my head for now. I think it's a decent concept, but there's no self-sustainability, so all it will be is a strain on my non-existent finances. Even now I admire Moogy and whoever's hosting Baka-Tsuki for keeping them up. That and I'm not really good with coding up such a complex site (despite having taken up computer science).