IMO a great approach would be for an extensive FAQ to be developed for WB, perhaps hierarchical by categories, with each FAQ question and response(s) having a unique URL. Then a responder could reference this as baseline stuff, something discussion could build on without feeling the need to reprise a whole lot of basic discussion. Perhaps the FAQ responses could in turn link to extensive relative threads for those that want to dig deeper. Technologically this is quite easy to do, and with a community this size it wouldn't be difficult to come up with volunteers to do the work. Or (and?) the wiki approach could be used perhaps to just crowdsource much of the work.
Quite some time ago I helped build the
PCT FAQ on Postholer. Some FAQ entries are relatively simple to create, but many are not insofar as there are different approaches to backpacking issues, different opinions and styles, so if the wiki approach isn't used, the person or small group responsible for a given FAQ entry needs (MUST IMO) be sensitive to this, to give fair play to widely held views that they personally don't utilize.
Then if someone asks, for example, "What's the best starting date for an AT thru-hike" or "Can I bring my dog on the PCT", or "What's the best stove" or ... etc ... a response could start out with a FAQ link or two and discussion could proceed from there if the FAQ response wasn't plenty enough of an answer already.
What I particularly like about this is that if excellent FAQ entries resulted over time, folks looking for basic info could often get it right away, without waiting and hoping for a reply that might or might not be of real help to them.