Henning Schlottmann wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
We need to recruit people who are willing to contribute for a few winter
months. And maybe - just maybe - continue in spring or return next year
again. Wikipedia was always intended for drive-by editing: Readers, who
correct a fact, add some new information or fix a typo.
The company I work for employs a large number of people with with
Doctorates in mathematics and quantum mechanics. Most are opinionated
and argumentative but do not read wikipedia in areas that they have
expertise in. The last discussion I had with one of them over a
wikipedia article went "If I don't forget what I read there I'll have to
edit it, but I'm not prepared to have argue about it all weekend again."
Those with professional expertise are prepared to argue an issue with
colleagues, they are unlikely to spend several days over it on a web
site, particularly if they have start off by explaining basic concepts.