I think it would be nice if there was maybe some "in the middle" solution. I don't think (but i am also not 100% sure) that everything is constantly being driven into certain narratives, it's just specific topics. Most of them will have some kind of political character ro try to protect some party's specific interest.

I would think that if some article was created way back in, say, 2006 and only had minor edits that also happened a long time ago it's probably ok.

But yeah maybe it doesn't have to start with loads of data. In the end you could still go to the wikipedia page itself but i think it would be great if switching back and forth qas not necessary.

Maybe the question is more a matter of if it's more work to have everything and have people go at the absolutely tainted articles (a good way to find out if the trust system works) or start from scratch not having tainted articles but run the risk that it doesn't get much traction and it takes long for articles to appear at all.