On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Long term I see issues though. The expertise needed to improve the Wikipedia > is ratcheting ever upwards, but I doubt that the admins are; if they see a > person 'causing trouble' they tend to attack the minority as being 'not > consensus', but people with genuine expertise are always in the minority. In some areas, yes. But Wikipedia can't really get away from its "anyone can edit" roots. You need to retain both ways to welcome new editors without putting them off, while also welcoming experts without putting them off. And the right sort of experts as well. It is clear that some experts fail to get how WIkipedia works, which puts them more in the class of people that need guidance when they first try editing Wikipedia. > The Wikipedia should be and needs to be becoming more expert friendly, not > as a matter of policy, but due to some of the subject matter being more > fine-grained and precise. The operative word there being "some". Not all the subject matter has reached that level yet. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
