[WikiEN-l] Expert editors

[Bogdan Giusca]

Friday, September 22, 2006, 6:02:25 PM, Jossi wrote:

JF> I just see a massive amount of wishful thinking and naivete in the
JF> proposals @ citizendium.org and mailing list... As if expert editors
JF> do not have POVs to push, or that politics will not enter such a  
JF> system, or that expert editors with Phd's will be any better at text-
JF> based social interactions and collaborative editing than mere mortals.

Indeed, experts push POVs just like non-experts. Like the saying goes:
"For each expert, there is an equal and opposite expert".

Also, experts are human too, and they may be wrong sometimes. The experts
which always have the "last word" are going to annoy many contributors.