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The Joy:
"How might crowdsourcing and expert input work side-by-side, if at all?"
Crowd sourcing produces excessive noise. Expert input equals transmission of information, i.e. communication. Noise prevents communication. QED: The two are incompatible. Which results either in miscommunication or in no communication at all. That's probably the cause of most if not all disruptive conflict not only at WP/WR but in the notion of "participatory democracy" as a whole. The alternative is autocracy; and that ain't much of an alternative either. There are no easy solutions. That's life. As Alexander Pope put it: "Whatever is, is right". Get over it.
Another problem with noisy crowd-sourcing is that everybody is absolutely certain he/she is right; absolutely certain everything is either black or white. No shades of gray. Nobody knows how to live with uncertainty, that is to say, how to live with NPOV.
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