It is my perspective that working through the processes on Wikipedia are
too democratic for most academics. It is easier to get a grant and become
the defacto expert than to be part of the conversation. What I went
through last week trying to get support for the South African novel,
October, by
Good points below.
Also, on the academic side I can see it is academics looking for grants.
On the govt side, I have to wonder. After all, in Wikipedia people will
fight to get articles NPOV the govt would like to see biased, like
against govt surveillance and Iran, Russia, Palestinians and
