2009/4/22 doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com:
You need to offer a writer something very different, if you are to motivate him to write in the early stages when readership will be low. Or indeed, you have to attract the type of writer who would be wholly disinterested in writing for wikipedia.
More - you need people who are actually disinterested, not embittered. Note how many Wikipedia Review regulars have managed to get banned from Citizendium as well as Wikipedia in record time. It's entirely unclear why they don't start their own wiki encyclopedia, and thus demonstrate our evil and worthlessness.
- d.