Changes: Expert article

Latest revision as of 08:08, 28 November 2007

Expert articles are protected from general editing

These are articles written by expert contributors.

System of featuring expert-written articles

If you are, or someone you know is, an expert who could contribute to the Psychology Wiki, please contact one of our administrators (listed below). The idea is to develop each expert-written article alongside a community article on the same subject. We will attempt to create one expert-written article for each Featured Article.

If we can manage to get at least twelve expert articles per year, then we can have a new expert-written Featured Article each month, highlighted under a suitable heading on the Main page with a direct link from there to the whole article and the related community article.

Featured Articles will be listed at Psychology Wiki:Featured Articles.

Benefits of expert-written articles

Having expert-written articles will hopefully raise our credibility amongst the academic psychology community.
However, if we replaced the community articles with expert-written ones, it wouldn't really be following the spirit of wiki writing, which is why we believe that having separate expert articles (in parallel to community articles) would be the best way forwards. This way we get the advantages of both approaches, while minimizing the disadvantages.
The expert articles would inform the general reader and hence raise the quality of the community articles. Likewise, the community articles may actually contain information which the expert had not considered. There may be related concepts or perspectives in other papers, for example, that the expert had not encountered. Furthermore, an interpretation of their article by another reader might give them an idea that they may not have already had. All of our research and ideas come from reading other people's ideas.
Attracting expert guest writers will also attract more expert guest writers (and more contributors), thus, in turn, further raising our readership, contributorship, and credibility.

Edit-protection

Expert articles are protected from general editing. If expert articles were not protected, then people would come back (eventually) and change what the expert had written. This irritates most experts immensely, as most experts are better qualified to write the article than most other contributors (even on this wiki). This is one of the chief complaints about Wikipedia by experts who have taken the time to contribute there.

Psychology Wiki administrators

Dr Joe Kiff · Dr Joe Kiff · Talk · Email · Founder

Jason Bessey · Jaywin · Talk · Email · General Administrator

Dr Art Becker-Weidman · AWeidman · Talk · Email · Welcome and editing helper

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+::<big><b><font color="Red">Expert articles are protected from general editing</font></b></big> <!-- reassuring, but why say that here when it's said and expanded part-way down? -->
-These will be articles written by [[Expert contributor]]s.
+These are articles written by [[expert contributor]]s.
-If you know an expert who could contribute to the Psychology Wiki please contact one of our admins.  The idea will be to develop our expert written articles alongside our [[community article]]s.  We will attempt to create one Expert written article for each [[Featured article]].
-Benefits of Expert written articles include:
+==System of featuring expert-written articles==
+If you are, or someone you know is, an expert who could contribute to the Psychology Wiki, please contact [[Psychology Wiki:Administrators|one of our administrators (listed below)]].  The idea is to develop each expert-written article alongside a [[community article]] on the same subject.  We will attempt to create one expert-written article for each [[Psychology Wiki:Featured Articles|Featured Article]].
+If we can manage to get at least twelve expert articles per year, then we can have a new expert-written Featured Article<!-- clarifying on the assumption that this is what was meant by the rather mixed term "expert featured article" --> each month, highlighted under a suitable heading on the [[Main page]] with a direct link from there to the whole article and the related community article.
-# Because anyone can edit the article, people would come back (eventually) and change what Herniques had written. This irritates most experts immensley (more so on WP than it would do on the Psy Wiki though I'd imagine) as most experts are better qualified to write the article than most other contributors (even on this wiki). This is one of the chief complaints about WP by experts who have taken time to contribute there.
-# Having expert written articles (which was effectively your idea originally, involving Henriques) will dramatically raise our credibility amongst the academic psychology community.
+<!-- (Until there is a hint of reaching the above interim target, not looking likely in April 2007 with two articles in 10 months, this highly speculative paragraph would be best hidden so that the somewhat lengthy page is at least all worth thinking about.
-# However, if we replaced the community written articles with expert written ones, it wouldnt really be following the spirit of wiki writing, which was why I thought that expert articles in parallel to community articles would be the best way forwards. This way we get the advantages of both approaches, whilst minimizing the disadvantages.
+If we can manage to get at least 52 expert articles per year, then we can have a weekly expert featured article on the main page.
-# The expert articles would inform the general reader and hence raise the quality of the community articles. Likewise, the community articles may actually contain information which the expert had not considered or encountered. There may be critiques/papers of ToK related theory that Henriques has not encountered for example, or an interpretation of his theory by another reader might give him an idea that he may not have already had. All of our research and ideas come from reading other peoples ideas.
+-->
-# Attracting expert guest writers will also attract more expert guest writers (and more contributors) hence raising our readership, contributors and credibility again.
+Featured Articles will be listed at '''[[Psychology Wiki:Featured Articles]]'''.
+==Benefits of expert-written articles==
+<!-- the paragraph about protection describes a benefit of protecting, not a benefit of having the article; so it has moved down to a suitably-headed separate paragraph  -->
+# Having expert-written articles will hopefully raise our credibility amongst the academic psychology community.
+# However, if we replaced the [[community article]]s with expert-written ones, it wouldn't really be following the spirit of wiki writing, which is why we believe that having separate expert articles (in parallel to community articles) would be the best way forwards. This way we get the advantages of both approaches, while minimizing the disadvantages.
+# The expert articles would inform the general reader and hence raise the quality of the community articles. Likewise, the community articles may actually contain information which the expert had not considered. There may be related concepts or perspectives in other papers, for example, that the expert had not encountered. Furthermore, an interpretation of their article by another reader might give them an idea that they may not have already had. All of our research and ideas come from reading other people's ideas.
+# Attracting expert guest writers will also attract more expert guest writers (and more contributors),  thus, in turn, further raising our readership, contributorship, and credibility.
+==Edit-protection==
+'''<font color="Red">Expert articles are protected from general editing.</font>''' If expert articles were not protected, then people would come back (eventually) and change what the expert had written. This irritates most experts immensely, as most experts are better qualified to write the article than most other contributors (even on this wiki). This is one of the chief complaints about Wikipedia by experts who have taken the time to contribute there.
+==Psychology Wiki administrators==
+{{Admins}}
+[[category:Expert articles|*]]