Comments on: Wikipedia's open-source label conundrum

Despite a media habit of referring to Wikipedia as an open-source project, it looks only a little like such software efforts.

[ta bu shi da yu]

Hmmm...

... yes, I'm well aware of that K5 article. I must disagree with him somewhat, though I do think that having experts contribute is a good thing. My problem is that "elitism" means that certain topics might not be covered very well in terms of scope. I've seen experts who refused to cover topics simply because they didn't like them. That really has no place on Wikipedia.

I believe in the quality of the information that you are adding to Wikipedia, not the expert who wrote it. Being an "expert" only says that the information MIGHT be more reliable. I would STILL need to check their sources.

TBSDY