[WikiEN-l] An expert's perspective - Tim Bray on editing the XML article

[Samuel Klein]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:36 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/11 Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com>:
>> d. wrote:
>
>>> His approach was to recruit a pile of other XML experts, who he didn't
>>> necessarily agree with.
>
>> Another important aspect of his approach was that he recognized
>> (and even agreed with!) the concerns over someone like him doing
>> any editing.
>
> Yep. He gets Wikipedia.
>
> As someone commented on his blog, one of the problems is that the
> experts in an area are likely to have been very heavily involved in
> it.

Also biased by that involvement towards a particular mindset,
especially when it comes to speculative or cutting edge or
controversial work.

Tim was invited to speak at one of the Wikimanias, but couldn't make it.

Sj