[WikiEN-l] Re: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia

Wed Mar 9 02:50:31 UTC 2005

JAY JG wrote:

>> 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

Though if they've been properly retrained, meaning they abide by the 
spirit of Wikipedia's policies, no further restraint should be necessary.

--Michael Snow