The discussion about extending the Bare Bones has been around before. At the far end, the boundaries between an "extended Bare Bones" and a "community OS project" begin to blur. Sometimes we even argue about whether to use GRUB to boot your kernel or to roll your own bootloader; now imagine what would happen if our Wiki material would "take visitors by the hand" even further, making decisions on text mode vs. graphics mode, BIOS vs. protected mode drivers, paging vs. no paging, 4kb vs. 4mb pages, et cetera et cetera ad infinitum...
Would you really want to cover that, in all combinations possible? I wouldn't.
I think the general structure of the Wiki is quite OK as it is: An introductionary section, addressing all the points that a beginner
should consider before starting on this endeavour (but usually doesn't
). Some generic reference sections, about compilers, assemblers, linkers, formats etc.; and a section giving the kind of hands-on overview on some details, like MSRs, Virtual 8086, PS2 keyboard input etc.
It's all in there. I just feel it could need some polishing; and some more use as a link-and-forget solution for FAQ postings (instead of the hundredth iteration of "can I use Java instead of C" or something like that).