Expert article

These will be articles written by experts

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 articles. We will attempt to create one Expert written article for each Featured article.

Benefits of Expert written articles include:

1) 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. 2) Having expert written articles (which was effectively your idea originally, involving Henriques) will dramatically raise our credibility amongst the academic psychology community. 3) 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. 4) 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. 5) Attracting expert guest writers will also attract more expert guest writers (and more contributors) hence raising our readership, contributors and credibility again.