Marc Riddell wrote
Quite seriously, though, I believe one of the
persistent flaws in Wikipedia
that is preventing it from having a wider, more professional acceptance is
its policy 'anyone can edit'.
Well, it is the wiki-pedia, and wiki implies anyone can edit. There are any number of
other ways of setting up websites. It happens that Wikipedia is massively productive, and
successful in comparison with other approaches. Concentrating on expertise would, for
example, mean discouraging editors from straying outside their specialisms. The whole
dynamic of building up the community of Wikipedians has gone quite the other way, with
broad-based generalist editors doing sterling work.
Charles
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