--- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
have most users and article writers be non-experts. [Sanger] proposes that experts should have an "editorship" type role, to "gently guide" the work of non-experts. It's unclear what exactly this will involve, but it doesn't seem like it will be the place for experts who want to avoid interacting with the general public---the only advantage is that in those interactions they may be given some official levers to use (but still be expected to use them "gently").
We already plan to give reviewership roles to certain users who know about certain subjects and can thus tag certain article versions as reviewed. Larry's plan seems to require the use of real names and declarations of credentials for an analogous 'editorship' role.
Not much more seems to be different. We could simply give reviewers the option of verifying their real names and credentials if that aspect of Larry's project seems to work.
I only see benefits to Wikipedia by Larry's experiment; we can copy the improvements to articles and any process improvements.
-- mav
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