[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia as community service

Phroziac phroziac at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 23:54:17 UTC 2005


heh Fred. Trying to get out of some work? :P

On 9/29/05, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
> Sounds good. I'll take you on as an assistant in an arbitration case
> if you like. See Wikipedia:Requests for Arbitration. You can do some
> leg work, try to figure out who did what. Detective work really.
>
> Fred
>
> On Sep 29, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Greg Andrews wrote:
>
> > As part of a college class I am in, we are required to, along with at
> > least a few other students, do 10 hours of community service.  We are
> > allowed to present our ideas to the class for others to join our
> > cause.
> >
> > My thought is to use Wikipedia as a community service project.  Pledge
> > to spend those 10 hours (ideally non-consecutive) editing, cleaning,
> > and writing for Wikipedia.
> >
> > I'm set to propose this idea to my class tomorrow.  Has anyone done
> > something like this before, and what are you opinions on it?
> >
> > -Greg
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