(An Unofficial) Python Tutorial Wiki

putting the community back in "maintained by the community"

b01p

You are right, it is important to note that encodings are an issue. Still, the Source Code Encoding section feel completely out of place here.

How about having only a short comment on encodings being an issue in this chapter, with a link to the full encoding explaination (which will reside elsewhere)?

This way most readers (who will use plain english) will be warned not to use other encodings, and those interested can go read more.