[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias (was How did this happen (comixpedia??))

[kosebamse at gmx.net]

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com wrote at Tue Nov 15 12:15:00 UTC 2005:
  
>What worries me is that with our growing popularity, we're going to have
>more experts arriving on our doorstep, trying to write articles on their
>specialist areas, and leave in disgust when some 2-bit moron votes "d,
>nn. cruft".

As far as I can say, that has always been a serious problem. It's not a
matter of elitism. An expert who is used to discussing his views  with
well-informed people on an academic level will not enjoy the experience of
having to defend basic and established knowledge of his field against
schoolkids whose only expertise is with video games. I am offering no
opinion on the desirability of it, but the latter probably form a very
sizable fraction of our user base.

Kosebamse

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