It will sure be interested to see if they get new recruits especially from wikipedia ranks - we might get large influx of new disgruntled ex-editors.
I think it would be interesting to see how that would play out as well, but not just new editors from Wikipedia, but from all walks of life...as having actual content to link too under the DMOZ flag should help get the word out, and with luck word in a positive light. Though, with what googles done to the directory itself I'm unsure if people will step up...well, I'm sure less webmasters will step up, at least until the SERP averages out a bit more. I'm also interested in seeing what kind of complaints will show up there, and if they will be looked into.
That one should stay permanently it would best anti-corruption tool there is. Well most new (honest) editors are bound to come from wiki ranks, it has 5,417,242 registered user accounts out of which 1,336 are admins! So group of wikipedians will feel like Alice in wonderland when faced with DMOZ bureaucracy and secrecy, idea that edit logs are top secret, that you have to ask for new rights each time you want to edit in another category and that you need to have enough edits to be allowed, not to mention approval process can take days and weeks... and to be allowed to become editall or meta it doesn't matter how hard you work or community thinks of you but if existing metas think you are worthy of joining them! And when first wikipedian gets removed for something irrelevant (with official reason naturally remaining a top secret) all DMOZ links might suddenly disappear from wikipedia and vice vrsa - then it will truly be entire World against DMOZ.
Yes, I guess that would qualify for what I'm looking for. Maybe I should log in over there and ask a similar question.