tarquin wrote:
>>>[Re: having experts write reviews of Wiki
articles]
>
>Such reviews would be themselves fully credited and not
>editable, and attached to the article they describe, but the
>subject article itself would remain fully editable.
The main concern I have about this is that if it is widely used by
foot soldiers like we all are now, then these uneditable reviews might
take the place of /Talk pages, with the difference that refactoring
them becomes impossible (rather than merely a social risk).
Uneditable anything is a major step away from the wiki "mutually
assured destruction" that keeps things occassionally civil around
here. :-) So we should be careful about that.
I'm strongly inclined to say that we should just embrace the Casio
effect for another year or so -- our progress has not stalled (right?)
and in another few years, we'll be to a point where "most everything
important" will have an article about it. At that time, either we can
start working on new inventions, possibly mirroring new social
customs, to attract "expert" help.
OR, and this is a distinct possibility, we will be the provider of raw
"90% good" content for competing major "distributions". Larry, or
someone like him with an interest in getting University sponsorship
and grant money, can gather our content and devise a way (possibly
involving payments!) to attract these polishers.
There's no current crisis in the wikipedia world, so changes _later_
are probably better than changes _sooner_. I think I'm echoing
several other people in saying this.
--Jimbo