Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism
Larry Sanger,
Kuro5hin,
Dec 31, 2004
One of the founders of Wikipedia expresses concerns about the online encyclopedia's future. Wikipedia needs to appear more credible, he argues, and to do this it needs a mechanism where expertise prevails. "Nearly everyone with much expertise but little patience will avoid editing Wikipedia, because they will--at least if they are editing articles on articles that are subject to any sort of controversy--be forced to defend their edits on article discussion pages against attacks by nonexperts." I'm not so sure that's a bad thing.
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