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My main reason for the suggestion is not a positive effect in wiki writing, but to avoid a negative effect from social reasons: it avoids the failure mode on Wikipedia, where adminship is such a HUGE DEAL that they're actually having trouble finding people who want to subject themselves to the trial by ordeal required. Making adminship easy also increases personal social buy-in, and particularly if they're familiar with how awful the process is on Wikipedia.
It's not a "huge deal" here, the fact that there is a failure mode somewhere else doesn't automatically translate here.
But it doesn't automatically mean it doesn't. Note that WP, like LW, is largely populated by huge nerds who like detail and getting things right. I suspect there's more for LW wiki to learn from WP than most wikis would have to learn from it. I could be wrong, of course., this is personal surmise rather than experience.
Comparison with Wikipedia is difficult, as there is a crucial difference that Wikipedia has a huge number of contributors, as the world's Schelling point for collecting facts.