2009/12/5 Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>om>:
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:46 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Possibly. It strikes me that one way to recruit
smart specialists
> would be to point them at the redlink list in their specialty. "We
> have some idea how far we need to go."
Depends how cranky they get in a place like
Wikipedia...
You can hardly move on Wikipedia without tripping over a Ph.D. We have
expert editors galore. Most of them are perfectly nice to work with
and comprehend the idea of working with others who are more than a
little difficult.
(The problem, as far as I can tell, is with the difficult experts.
Academia is very experienced with these people: it puts them in an
office, insulated from humans, where they can get on with being
brilliant and not have to interact with others. Wikipedia, OTOH, has
an apparently limitless supply of people who would try an expert's
patience, and it doesn't take many. People are a problem.)
- d.