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).
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.
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