On 20 October 2011 16:02, Andreas K. jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
Not everybody uses the Internet in the same way. Many younger users are fairly inured to porn and gore, having seen it all before. But a lot of the people who have something to offer Wikipedia in the, you know, *educational* field, are turned off by it, finding it crass and juvenile.
This is the first I've seen a filter advocated as the solution to the expert problem. Which was always previously put in terms of not being able to keep idiots out of experts' faces.
But you're late - the expert problem turns out to be dissolving in a surprising manner, i.e. they're coming to us anyway, because they want their fields properly represented in the biggest encyclopedia. Which is not a reason for complacency, but it *is* a reason to think twice about using claims of the expert problem as justification for bending the encyclopedia all out of shape for any other reason.
- d.