On 19/09/06, Kim van der Linde kim@kimvdlinde.com wrote:
For most of your email, I have no idea - it's all a work in progress on de: and may not work anything like that way on en:. But:
But the main question, in what way would the preferred option (2b) differ from Citizendium, except that the current community structure at Wikipedia is way less inviting for those needed experts to join and the massive community resistance that can be expected against such a change?
You know, I really don't see the general expert-hating you speak of. Lots of Wikipedia contributors are in fact credentialed experts in the fields they edit in, I know a pile of such people personally.
As far as I can tell the main difference is that the Ph.D gets you nothing by itself, you also have to be able to edit well and work with others. Which is an entirely different skill: you have to be able to cope with an environment with stupid people in.
What I'm wondering is why we have the quantity of experts editing Wikipedia that we do. If we were as anti-expert as Sanger (and you) claims, why would they be here?
- d.