[jacobolus]

One big problem is that many “real” scholars discount the importance of making sure Wikipedia has good (comprehensive, accurate, well sourced) articles about their areas of expertise, leaving the task to the (often misguided) efforts of amateur enthusiasts.

A wikipedia article is going to have orders of magnitude more influence than nearly any journal article or textbook, and scholars should put at least a basic amount of effort into improving them.

It should be seen as a kind of public outreach.