On 19/09/06, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Yes, why should another site not get the grunt work done? I guess because they start with a 'more chiefs than Indians' model of intellectual work? Delegation to the nearest graduate student actually works in academia, sort of. People get doctorates for doing what someone memorably called the more boring parts broken off the professor's research program. Just who gets excited enough to add all those variants of [[John of Jandun]], for a random example, on a site based on a star system (as if that was a panacea)?
Wikipedia gets people willing to do the ridiculously boring jobs because they believe in the project and this is a way they can help it.
An example that I find striking: The [[Puffing Billy Railway, Melbourne]] is a tourist steam railway. They have volunteers out warming up the engine every morning at 3am! Reliably! People volunteer to do jobs that when paid workers did them brought socialist revolution to mind.
Citizendium will, I suspect, need to attract people who belileve in the project and want to help it however they can and do the *really boring bits*.
- d.