All,
Here's a message I want you to understand and to go forth and propagate to
the world, because for some reason a lot of people don't seem to get it.
It is that CZ is not for experts only. People who are not experts about a
topic in fact *are* free to write about that topic. Not only do they have
permission, they are very strongly encouraged to do so. There is a category
of Authors and by golly, Authors should get to work.
Bear in mind that this applies to editors as well, when they're writing
outside their areas of expertise. For example, I am not an expert about
much of anything, frankly. If I weren't so busy with e-mail and a thousand
other things, I would be quite busy on the wiki writing about, well, all
sorts of stuff, because despite my lack of expertise, I do actually know
quite a bit about quite a bit. (In a loose and popular sense of "know,"
mind you, philosophers.)
In short, I want to encourage Authors to BE BOLD.
Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto xi. St. 54.
And as she lookt about, she did behold,
How over that same dore was likewise writ,
Be bold, be bold, and every where be bold,
That much she muz'd, yet could not construe it
By any ridling skill, or commune wit.
At last she spyde at that roomes upper end,
Another yron dore, on which was writ,
Be not too bold; whereto though she did bend
Her earnest mind, yet wist not what it might intend.
Yes, there is also that puzzling business about being not *too* bold, and
that surely applies here, but I think that for a while here in the beginning
we can err on the side of overboldness.
BTW, this list has 453 members. That means that probably over 200 people on
this list aren't in the pilot project. Why not?
--Larry
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