This is all well and good, having a review board and experts stuff and all...
But is it really necessary?
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:16:37 -0700 (PDT), Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
In short, if faced with choosing between an expert who does not care to conform to the Wikipedia way (by which I mean is willing to engage in give-&-take in the writing of material) & a non-expert who is willing to learn & "play nice" with other contributors, I would choose the latter. And I hope I am not alone in this preference.
You explained the strengths and weaknesses extremely well, but your conclusion is based on an either/or choice. I very firmly believe that this is not an either/or choice and that we should leverage the strengths of both against their weaknesses (I too have come across PhD's - in print and in person - who espouse nearly crank theories).
So a particular subject area approval board may decide to have one or more experts read an article along with one or more non-expert but trusted Wikipedians who are self-taught in the topic area. Each person reading the article would grade the article based on whether or not it covers its topic area well, is a fair treatment (presenting important but non-mainstream views with the appropriate detail and caveats), and whether or not there are obvious errors of fact.
Each would have *equal* veto power over not approving the article by giving it a sub-standard grade in any of several different categories. Conflicts of judgment will have to be worked out among the judges.
Rather egalitarian, no?
-- mav
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