[WikiEN-l] Anti-elitism

[Chris Lüer]

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

>I was wondering where all this VFD-RFC-RFA stuff was really heading, so
>I
>dipped into MeatBall, and that led me to the social dynamics of wikis -
>which ended up with Larry's critique of Wikipedia's anti-elitism.
>
>He sees it as causing our 2 biggest problems:
>1. a perception of unreliability (justified or not)

Obviously.

>2. an often unpleasant an even hostile working atmosphere

Yeah right. Like the editorial boards of academic journals, 
conference committees and such are all friendly and peaceful.

         Chl