On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:35 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > This reads like a radical anti-egalitarian manifesto by some young > Internet-based firebrand. Wikipedia is way cool! Universities are dead > institutions walking! We'll all learn off the web! Social networks > will replace campuses! You know the sort of thing: > > http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/stand-and-deliver-on-its-last-legs/story-e6frgcko-1225937823844 > > Then I got to the end and m`y jaw dropped when I saw what the author > did for a living. (Try to read the article without skipping to the > end.) > > So. What do we do to distinguish experts from non-experts when we no > longer even have credentials as a marker of expertise? (e.g. there's > not a vast reserve of commercial positions for pure philosophers.) > > > - d. >
Crowd-sourced reputations! We list all the people who want to be experts, and let Wikimedians vote them up or down! Kind of like academic "Hot or Not." _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
