On 24 September 2012 21:20, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's funny, most organizations point to our community as am example of > how > > to manage such things with volunteers. > > > > Another example: law reviews offer an excellent and widely reproduced > model > > where the most esteemed publications are run by students. > Well, perhaps. But their "peer review" is courtrooms, where the decisions are made publicly and are produced by the justice system free of charge to the journals. Otherwise, the articles are written by students with faculty advisors reviewing their work. I don't think anyone wants medical studies to be "peer reviewed" by medical students. > > Another amusing example is The Economist current affairs magazine. I hear > their > contributors don't, as a rule, run to grey whiskers and tweed jackets. > > -- > You're correct; a lot of them are paid journalists, and the rest are paid columnists. Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
