On 17 February 2011 14:16, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> So some might object to your use of the term sophomore, but the rest I > agree with. You need people who have experience explaining things to > make things like that accessible, but I would suggest technical > writers and those who are good at popularising and explaining science > and maths topics. Yyyesss. A working subject matter expert who also happens to be a brilliant and lucid writer would be *ideal*, but in practice someone with sufficient broad knowledge and writing skill to do a reasonable piece of (what is effectively) science journalism is what we actually have in the best case. And really, that's pretty good. Channel your inner Isaac Asimov. More often, we get (as Fred describes) an interested student who hopefully can also write a bit, and *that's not bad*. At worst we have a semi-opaque technical data dump, but that's still better than no article at all, and Wikipedia is after all a work in progress ... - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l