On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 20:05, Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Wikipedia is written by hundreds of thousands of
volunteers from around the world, and that won't change with this project. The
Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative will recruit Wikipedia volunteers to work with public
policy professors and students to identify topic areas for improvement, and work to make
them better. Some of that work will take the form of classroom assignments, and pilot
activities will begin during the 2010 fall academic semester. The project will continue
through summer 2011.
So if I could distill this announcement, it would be "$1.2M to liaison
with profs to essentially grade public policy articles so that our
unpaid volunteers can correct errors, add sources, and fix the
proverbial 'awk' in the margins" - is that correct?
~Amory