2008/12/26 Jacky PB dpotop1@yahoo.com:
I may rephrase this as follows: I believe the job of Wikipedia is not to create results, but to put them into a social and historical perspective, and reveal to the general reader the relations between pieces of knowledge. To do this, not being a specialist is not a problem, on the contrary. This actually corresponds to the first job of a junior scientist: Bibliography search.
I view our job at Wikipedia as channelling our inner Isaac Asimov. At least a bit.
- d.