on 1/1/09 9:52 AM, Phil Sandifer at snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
This really is how bad our policy formation has gotten - there is a sincere belief that specialist knowledge is actually harmful to Wikipedia.
on 1/1/09 11:10 AM, Marc Riddell at michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
It's the dominant culture, Phil. And, sadly, it is the way the Project has been headed for some time now.
Marc Riddell
Soon a group of persons will design an encyclopedia project with the same free-editing capability as Wikipedia, but which will creatively and effectively combine input from the specialist and generalist alike. We'll see.
Marc