I posted this question on serverfault.com, and it turned into "War & Peace" so I decided to duplicate it here to capture my on going battle with the problem.
I am also motivated to do this because stackexchange have implemented some annoying "community wiki" feature which declares posts to be "community owned" after a certain number of edits, which is most annoying because it steals any reputation points that you might get after that point.
My work-around to the community wiki problem is to maintain the question and answer content for editing elsewhere, so you reduce the number of individual "edits" that serverfault.com sees to below the cut off.
I am starting to believe the old adage that you don't know a system well, until you know something about it that really annoys you. ;-)