On 09/10/04 07:42, Charles Matthews wrote:
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.
Yes. It's something for someone else to do somewhere.
I had a job interview recently where I was asked about Wikipedia - it's mentioned at the end of my CV under 'interests'. So I had to give a one-liner on Wikipedia - "a web page that anyone can edit, with version control ... amazed it works as well as it does ... not up to life or death, but up to pub quiz level [thanks to Jimbo for that one, at the recent UK talks!] ... technical articles are usually very good ..." I think I might have recruited one of the interviewers ;-) I did add: "A review process is being put together."
C) What happens to 'be bold' if people's qualifications to edit are an issue?
This is why we have to come up with a sane review process that lets the wiki do the work.
D) You are not going to get top academics interested.
Not with what we have now. And think of the reactions of, e.g., many of wikien-l to academics such as user:172, who does just happen to be very knowledgeable and good at what he does as well as unimpeachably qualified.
- d.