On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 03:51:42PM -0800, George Herbert wrote:
Along the lines of noneuclidian geometry...
What if we experiment (at least conceptually) with inverting that
instruction? Encourage people to write on subjects they know...
Normal people won't be so much of an expert that using their own
professional or academic work as a reference is even applicable.
Actual experts, we can include a "Please cite your sources, rather
than your own work, thanks!" and leave it at that.
Actual experts who fail to heed that are a problem, but a much smaller
and easier to communicate with and explain problem than the no-newbies
one.
You know, this is starting to sound like we're the 2001 wikipedia to provide
input to the nascent Nupedia? ;-)
My proposal would be to replace AFC with an "unstable branch wikipedia".
(And cherry-pick from there). This proposal has the upside that it uses proven
technology and processes ;-)
sincerely,
Kim bruning