"An early version of an entry in Wikipedia will be written by someone who knows the subject, and later editors will dissipate whatever value is there."
This happens very often, particularly with good and featured articles. Many outstanding pages have been eroded by anonymous know-it-alls into utter uselessness once their main contributors left the project. Unless we have content arbitration boards made up of professionals in any given field, we are likely to see an increase in complaints and a decrease in a number of knowledgable contributors.
--Ghirla
On 8/16/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/artic...
Stable versions would help with answering some of that criticism. Plenty of what he says is fair enough, IMO, particularly the point about the loudest voices winning purely by virtue of obnoxious trolling.
C More schi
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