[WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium

[Ray Saintonge]

Fred Bauder wrote:

>Experts, to function well on Wikipedia, need to more than just proclaim themselves an expert and regurgitate what they learned in school. Particularly they must be familiar with the literature and be able to cite it. That may be a rare talent, as is excellent teaching, the underlying skill that is involved in writing an introductory textbook, which is what a Wikipedia article is, in part.
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Both expert and amateur in theory have the same literature available for 
citation.  The important skill they learned in kindergarten: connecting 
the dots in the right order.

I wish Wikiversity well, but sometimes I wonder if they have grasped 
that planning an effective course is more than knowing the subject.

Ec