On Jan 23, 2008 5:24 PM, Ian A Holton poeloq@gmail.com wrote:
IMHO, Wikipedia should - at some point - do a recruiting drive for academics to get more involved with specialist subjects.
I've been trying to do this, within my field. This went out to most historians of science in the Americas and the UK: http://hssonline.org/publications/Newsletter2008/NewsJan2008Ross.html . I've gotten a fair number of emails about it, all of them positive so far. Some of them said they planned to get involved, though I haven't seen much on-wiki activity from them yet. Academics can be receptive to the idea, especially if an appeal to edit is coming from a colleague. If you're involved with any sort of professional academic society, try getting a short letter about Wikipedia into their newsletter or main professional news outlet; the editors of such things are likely to jump at the chance to publish something about Wikipedia related specifically to their field.
-Sage (User:Ragesoss)