On the Nature and Sources of Expertise, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Wiki Systems Options

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On the Nature and Sources of Expertise

Questions about the nature of expertise have been coming up in several of the forums where I spend my time of late, and I've begun to notice curious discrepancies among the things that different people say about it, not to mention the many divergences between those assumptions and the way that I've always thought about expertise, well, at least, for as long as I can remember. So I think I'll break the ice with that.

Just trying to resuscitate this topic that keeps coming up in parallel dialogues on both the old wiki and the new wiki, but that just as quickly keeps falling into some kind of narcoleptic coma. This time I'll try a tactic of selective cross-posting between the two wikiverses of Citizendium and Wikipedia Review.

Nota Bene. This essay is being transposted to the following two wikiverses:

• Citizendium Forums
• Wikipedia Review

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IronDuke & All --

I'm trying to remember how I got into this discussion of expertise, as expertise is not really a word that I use a lot, but it seemed to be the word that people kept interjecting into the discussions that I kept finding myself in -- going back to discussions with other disgrunts at Wikipedia, then again here at the Review, and yet again on Sanger's blog, the Textop wiki, and Citizendium. So I tried to go with the hermeneutic flow, being EZ as I am, but maybe it's now time to buck it.

What you say about expertise is more or less copacetic with me, and it's one of the reasons that there's a big ellipsis in the outline that I started above, as I was preparing to detail the varieties of expertise that a person may acquire through many different phases of life -- but I got distracted with the booming and buzzing of the startup at Citizendium. Well, I'm done with that now, so back to the grinstone.

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