Henning Schlottmann wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
We need to recruit people who are willing to contribute for a few winter months. And maybe - just maybe - continue in spring or return next year again. Wikipedia was always intended for drive-by editing: Readers, who correct a fact, add some new information or fix a typo.
The company I work for employs a large number of people with with Doctorates in mathematics and quantum mechanics. Most are opinionated and argumentative but do not read wikipedia in areas that they have expertise in. The last discussion I had with one of them over a wikipedia article went "If I don't forget what I read there I'll have to edit it, but I'm not prepared to have argue about it all weekend again."
Those with professional expertise are prepared to argue an issue with colleagues, they are unlikely to spend several days over it on a web site, particularly if they have start off by explaining basic concepts.