On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:34 +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 07/01/2008, Ian A Holton <poeloq(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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.
University entry requirements are pretty low, and you don't usually
get chucked out for being useless until at least the end of the first
year. In my experience, plenty of people don't even get chucked out
then - per capita funding, you see...
I'm not sure what country you are referring to, but from my experience
getting into a decent university on a satisfactory course one should at
least have some good grades and a decent character. I try not to be
biased, but the American system seems to be slightly more acceptable to
people with lower qualifications or less motivation.
Obviously, if this were to be planned one would need criteria having to
be met (for example one can only be paid for edits on articles from ones
field of study).
Ian [[User:Poeloq]]