On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Long term I see issues though. The expertise needed to
improve the Wikipedia
is ratcheting ever upwards, but I doubt that the admins are; if they see a
person 'causing trouble' they tend to attack the minority as being 'not
consensus', but people with genuine expertise are always in the minority.
In some areas, yes. But Wikipedia can't really get away from its
"anyone can edit" roots. You need to retain both ways to welcome new
editors without putting them off, while also welcoming experts without
putting them off. And the right sort of experts as well. It is clear
that some experts fail to get how WIkipedia works, which puts them
more in the class of people that need guidance when they first try
editing Wikipedia.
The Wikipedia should be and needs to be becoming more
expert friendly, not
as a matter of policy, but due to some of the subject matter being more
fine-grained and precise.
The operative word there being "some". Not all the subject matter has
reached that level yet.
Carcharoth