On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Ben Kovitzbkovitz@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