What makes you think either that the current system is creating mediocrity, or that the proposed review board would be better? It seems that what is being proposed is removing the value added of an open content encyclopedia, and would be damaging for that reason. Mark
--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Mark Richards marich712000@yahoo.com wrote:
I very much hope this does not happen. Setting up 'expert reviews' would be the death of the
project.
But the goal of the project is to create the largest free resource of knowledge that has ever existed. Wiki is a means to that end. So if some aspects of that process start to result in a drive toward mediocre content, then we *must* make some changes to put us back on track.
Adding some type of article review system that could scale to cover a large part of our content would be a massive improvement. Experts should have seats on those review boards, but so should non-experts. Neither the views of experts or non-experts would carry more weight - both would be equal (the consensus view of the board itself is what would count).
-- mav
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