On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Fred Bauder wrote:
Experts will come, retired folks, occassional passersby, students. Frankly, I don't want to see any expert (in some field) playing any important role unless they are also expert in the give and take of wikipedia article writing and editing.
But since I'm not proposing that experts play any important role (other than one that they can already play right now) in *Wikipedia*.
If you quit now or greatly modify the system you'll never know how what we do now would have developed.
"Quit now"? Who is proposing that anyone quit anything? Besides, the systems running the free encyclopedia project been constantly modified from its very beginning. Why stop doing that? Do you really think that Wikipedia has found the magic formula? I don't think so, and (if you'll forgive me) I played a larger part than anyone in developing the formula.
--Larry