I agree with Yaroslav that we should have a specific role for experts, or rather for the greater number of experts who may be interested in contributing, but who will not be attracted to participate in the classical back-and-forth wiki model.
But I do not believe that experts should have any special powers in the editing of articles. Rather, I think they should be encouraged to act in a pure review capacity, assessing the existing work of Wikipedians, and making recommendations for improvement. This might also be partially implemented through flagged revs, and I could also envision a type of button at the top of articles that says "see last version assessed by an expert". Really, what we want to encourage is a sort of organized external peer review of Wikipedia, possibly published through a new academic journal for the genre, which authors might have some prestige in contributing to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_peer_review Thanks, Pharos On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: > >> One of your points there was: >>> 6. The current experience (or at least my current experience) is not >>> really encouraging. The real top researchers just plainly have no time >>> to edit articles, nor are they really interested. Those who come are >>> mostly interested in editing article about themselves or about their >>> immediate research, and view this as a kind of free PR. >> The same might be said of articles about Wikipedia. If you don't get >> any responses within 48 hours you are unlikely to get any at all. I see >> one response there but that is most likely because of the message to >> which I am responding. Your comments are on "Temp17" of what is >> probably a much longer series of personal subpages. There is very >> likelihood that anyone will ever see it, let alone respond. >> >> Ec > > Actually, I only have Temp17, and I was preparing it in my personal space > (so far provided links to several users), but on one occasion a couple of > months ago I posted it in this mailing list. It there is any interest, I > will obviously move it to the general meta namespace. > > I did not yet check the comments, will do now. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
