[Wikipedia-l] The "Casio Effect"

Tue Sep 3 23:30:22 UTC 2002

> I'm strongly inclined to say that we should just embrace the
> Casio effect for another year or so -- our progress has not
> stalled (right?) and in another few years, we'll be to a point
> where "most everything important" will have an article about it.
> At that time, either we can start working on new inventions,
> possibly mirroring new social customs, to attract "expert" help.

I don't think there's any immediate need for change either.  
I should also point out that "attaching an uneditable review" is
doable right now--all one has to do is put an external link on the
talk page.  Many talk pages have external links to "meta" pages,
for example. 

I do share Larry's concern for the "big picture" of the free
encyclopedia movement as a whole, though.  So I'm basically
proposing that we make it easier for experts to do that, and
for some community to identify which of these are real experts
worth listening to, and that we create a social norm of taking
them seriously.

But perhaps that too can be done entirely outside the auspices of
Wikipedia itself.  For example, the review board could select
reviewers, select articles for review, publish the reviews on its
own site, and only then put external links to them on the talk
page of the article, with a strong suggestion that our editors
here take heed.