On 19/09/06, Kim van der Linde kim@kimvdlinde.com wrote:
To many people seem under the impression that Citizendium is written solely by experts, my impression is that the bulk of the work is still done by many authors together, with a major difference that only a 'finalised' version is approved and visible for the larger public.
(We should all keep in mind that Citizendium isn't written by anyone at all as yet - it's still only a proposal.)
It's a useful idea, yes. I'm wondering, though, if their model includes non-experts as important contributors (which is what you seem to be saying), whether their initial publicity will prove problematic. It's not so much pro-expert as anti-non-expert. I don't see why a non-expert would bother with volunteering for it, what's in it for them.
Expert review of Wikipedia content is already possible. It doesn't even have to be done on Wikipedia - links to good versions of articles would suffice, as the URL of a given revision is unchanging.
(This ties in with [[WP:100K]].)
- d.