Hemanshu Desai wrote
In a way it is Wikipedia's strength that we don't *depend* on scholars and experts.
I think, in the longer term, the dependence will be seen to be greater. An interesting comparison is Murray's New English Dictionary, for which the basic material seems mostly to have come in over the first five years, submitted by many readers. Then bringing the entries to a polished state took much longer. That is, we do see a great enthusiasm for getting material onto WP.
Charles