[WikiEN-l] A future for Nupedia?

[Charles Matthews]

Jens Ropers wrote

> I would PLEAD with everyone to '''not''' go the road of requiring
> academic certifications for approval (or even to value them
> excessively).

I spent a dozen years as an academic in places people will have heard of,
and there is something to this.  Let's look at some points.

A) There is an argument that _someone else_ can do this - take selected WP
articles, get them refereed, post them on a web site.  WP lays the golden
eggs.

B) WP excels at the level of survey coverage, rather than specialist (my
opinion).

C) What happens to 'be bold' if people's qualifications to edit are an
issue?

D) You are not going to get top academics interested.

Charles