[Wikipedia-l] A Solution to Larry Sanger's Criticisms - Project Has Been Around For A While

Thu Jan 6 21:29:41 UTC 2005

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:03:42 -0500, Stirling Newberry
<stirling.newberry at xigenics.net> wrote:
> 
> On Jan 6, 2005, at 1:41 PM, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> > And you incorrectly assume that the non-expert POV warrior knows more 
> > than the non-expert NPOV-minded person or group (if the later are really in 
> > the right, then they will garner more support in the end and win).
> 
> [micro essay on 'poves']

That slithy word will haunt my dreams.

> Fundamentally expertise means something very different in the wikipedia
> verse - it means not being able to frame competing ideas out, but being
> able to draw a large enough frame so that readers can reasonably weigh
> the competing ideas available.

Yes, this.  Being a field expert helps in being competent to draw such
frames, and helps even more in filling in the frames with all
available ideas, but is neither necessary nor sufficient to make an
expert contributor.

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