2008/12/26 Jacky PB <[email protected]>:

> I may rephrase this as follows: I believe the job of Wikipedia
> is not to create results, but to put them into a social and
> historical perspective, and reveal to the general reader the
> relations between pieces of
> knowledge. To do this, not being a specialist is not a problem,
> on the contrary. This actually corresponds to the first job of a
> junior scientist: Bibliography search.


I view our job at Wikipedia as channelling our inner Isaac Asimov. At
least a bit.


- d.

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