Hi Ed -
Though I'm not sure what your area of specialty is offhand, I'd point you towards the Wiki Education Foundation and the US Education Program. Although the program has a bit of a checkered history, I feel like it's starting to come together quite well, and it does have the direct aim of improving the quality of our content in areas that are currently lacking.
Best, Kevin Gorman
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:22 AM, edward edward@logicmuseum.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Lila Tretikov lila@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
As I scanned through the weekend emails on this list I noticed that
many of
you are ready to get back to discussing the goals we are all working
on. I
am really glad to see that. We have plenty of interesting projects to discuss without the gossip. Let's respect the time that many following
this
list are donating to the project by sticking to constructive, on topic matters.
And for starters: the Wikipedia Android Beta app is in store and is awaiting your comments.
I don't know what an Android Beta app is. Could I ask if there are any plans by WMF to address some of the content problems in Wikipedia? Pretty much any article in my specialist area (which is actually not all that specialist) has serious problems - gross factual errors, omissions, bias and so on. I know from other specialists that this is not just restricted to my area: economics, sociology, many areas of the arts and humanities have similar problems.
This is not just a Wikimedia issue, it's a public interest issue. Wikipedia is now the go-to place for knowledge for pretty much everyone in the world. I don't see how WMF is fulfilling its mission (empowering people to collect and develop and disseminate educational content under a free license) when the content isn't actually educational.
Regards
Ed
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