Editing Expert (section)

===Networked expertise===
{{See also|Wisdom of the crowd}}
Building on Hartelius, Damien Pfister developed the concept of "networked expertise". Noting that Wikipedia employs a [[Many-to-many|"many to many"]] rather than a "one to one" model of communication, he notes how expertise likewise shifts to become a quality of a group rather than an individual. With the information traditionally associated with individual experts now stored within a text produced by a collective, knowing about something is less important than knowing how to find something. As he puts it, "With the internet, the historical power of subject matter expertise is eroded: the archival nature of the Web means that what and how to information is readily available." The rhetorical authority previously afforded to subject matter expertise, then, is given to those with the procedural knowledge of how to find information called for by a situation.{{sfn|Pfister|2011}}