[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is an encyclopedia

Tue Mar 8 21:56:57 UTC 2005

>From: "Charles Matthews" <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>
>
>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.

"Restraining" might also apply. :-O

Jay.