[WikiEN-l] Citizendium

[Stephen Streater]

On 17 Sep 2006, at 04:01, George Herbert wrote:

> On 9/16/06, Kim van der Linde <kim at kimvdlinde.com> wrote:
>> What I do know is that experts have in
>> general a short life span at Wikipedia (if they join at all), and  
>> that
>> is not going to change.
>
> There are areas of Wikipedia where that generality is not true at all,
> and experts are quite actively involved and not being rejected or
> driven away at all.
>
> I keep wondering what's different about those, compared to the areas
> where they are being pushed out, and thinking if there's some way to
> change that.  I haven't figured it out yet.

The experts I've seen being "driven away" leave
because they are used to and expect respect but
instead get treated as if they were arrogant know-it-alls.

I find this is less of an issue on the Mathematical articles
because it is hard to bluff and so easy for a layman editor
to tell when someone is an expert.