Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Assuming that good content (if any) in sangers project
will be added
to wikipedia, why would potential editors prefer to edit these
articles that are copied back to wikipedia too on sangers project,
rather than on wikipedia? There has to be some added value to editing
on sangers project, rather than on wikipedia, for his project to
flourish. What is it? I genuinely want to know.
If I had to guess, one response would be: the opportunity for a genuine
expert to work hand in hand with other genuine experts, without the
social difficulty of having to interact with the general public, some of
whom are quite noticeably stupid and annoying.
We try, as a community, to be welcoming and respectful of experts. We
have good people in the community who try to help experts deal with the
trolls, vandals, and general nonsense that is likely to come up from
time to time. But we can also all easily admit that sometimes it does
not go perfectly, and that genuine experts end up leaving rather than
wasting time arguing with idiots.