On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 19:34, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Experts will continue to stay away in droves, as long as we bicker amongst ourselves. To increase from 200 talented amateurs to 300, 400 or 500 people with even the sparsest sprinkling of subject matter experts, we must do something to make Wikipedia a more congenial environment.
I'm not sure how to do this. I'm only sure that we must.
I'm not exactly sure of this. So-called "experts" like a good bicker as much as the rest of us. Have you ever read the letters page of an academic journal? The insults fly between the ivory towers as viciously as in the grimy bars, you know :). So don't expect so-called "experts" to be necessarily put off by argument, and also don't expect them not to indulge in it should they ever turn up :)