On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 12:19 -0500, Nathan wrote:
On Jan 7, 2008 12:06 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@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.
Who would pay? Especially with the likelihood that whatever is written won't live for very long in the same form, but will be modified (and in the mind of a grantor, can be modified by any non-expert).
Well, first of all on the point of "non-experts": I don't believe one needs to be an expert on a field, as all statements must be sourced from somewhere that has been at least semi-verified by an "expert".Secondly, all statements that are sourced and cited live a lot longer than anything that wasen't. As to the exact way of putting something, that is unimportant. As long as all verifiable information that is notable is included, that is all that counts. And I can not see such information being removed.
Ian [[User:Poeloq]]