On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:09:39 -0000, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
Jimbo wrote
I do not endorse the view, a view held as far as
I know only by a very
tiny minority, that Wikipedia is anti-elitist or anti-expert in any
way. If anything, we are *extremely* elitist but anti-credentialist.
That is, we seek thoughtful intelligent people willing to do the very
hard work of getting it right, and we don't accept anything less than
that. PhDs are valuable evidence of that, and attracting and
retraining academic specialists is a valid goal.
I think Jimbo perhaps meant 'retaining', though in my case 'retraining'
rings a bell, also.
Attracting, retaining, and measuring specialists. If we can find a
good complementary metric for expertise, to go alongside the standard
academia metrics, we will be a good part of the way towards meshing
with existing reputation systems.
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+sj+