[WikiEN-l] Fundraiser quote of the day

[Ian A Holton]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:06 +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > However, all this might actually be a good idea. Paying students to edit
> > Wikipedia might be a way of funding research into new knowledge and also
> > help receive current knowledge in a form suitable for Wikipedia.
> > Obviously, one would have to find funding for such a thing. AFAIR, the
> > German Wikipedia received funding from the German government and a
> > private company for a project that was used for paid contributors.
> 
> Yes, if you can find the funding, it would be great. We should target
> post-grads, rather than under-grads, though. The information added
> will be much more reliable.

Not necessarily, in my opinion. I believe that anybody who has managed
to get into university and has at least spend a term there knows how to
research facts and source/cite them using the citation methods used on
Wikipedia. 

Ian [[User:Poeloq]]