[WikiEN-l] Do experts have a moral obligation to contribute to Wikipedia?
Steve Bennett
stevagewp at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 05:12:57 UTC 2009
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Ben Kovitz<bkovitz at acm.org> wrote:
> Wikipedia-editing is pretty far removed from subject-matter
> expertise. It's more about searching and summarizing and
> collaborating. It's closer to being a librarian than any other
> occupation.
Librarian? Nah. There are lots of consultants in many fields whose
work consists of researching then writing a report. They use their
expertise to help them find the information related to a specific
query, then formulate a report. *That* is much like Wikipedia.
Steve
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