[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is an encyclopedia

Tue Mar 8 20:12:57 UTC 2005

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:09:39 -0000, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at 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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