On 07/01/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> 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.
We've had some great stuff from students set the assignment of writing
for Wikipedia *and having to do so in a manner acceptable to
Wikipedia*. e.g.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/29/wikipedia
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071030-prof-replaces-term-papers-wit…
Dig this first edit. :-O
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deforestation_during_the_Roman_pe…
Set them loose on the red link lists at the bottom of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIP
- d.