On 17 Sep 2006, at 04:01, George Herbert wrote:
On 9/16/06, Kim van der Linde kim@kimvdlinde.com wrote:
What I do know is that experts have in general a short life span at Wikipedia (if they join at all), and that is not going to change.
There are areas of Wikipedia where that generality is not true at all, and experts are quite actively involved and not being rejected or driven away at all.
I keep wondering what's different about those, compared to the areas where they are being pushed out, and thinking if there's some way to change that. I haven't figured it out yet.
The experts I've seen being "driven away" leave because they are used to and expect respect but instead get treated as if they were arrogant know-it-alls.
I find this is less of an issue on the Mathematical articles because it is hard to bluff and so easy for a layman editor to tell when someone is an expert.