From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com http://www.mazar.ca/2007/05/07/wikipedia-as-community-service/ Much as lawyers have a certain pro bono obligation, so academics could as well. How to sell this one to academia?

en.wikibooks has had good success with attracting academia, even if only for short-term projects. We have had several classroom projects on our site. Typically, the professors give guidance while the students write the content for a grade. Although, we have also had projects where professors and graduate researchers have written books pro bono. Because many professors are interested in instruction, Wikibooks is the perfect place for them to contribute.

Regardless of the venue, we definately should push the angle that people who know should feel some obligation to share that knowledge freely. A modification on the "If something's wrong, you can fix it" mantra, such as "your students are reading wikipedia/wikibooks, don't you owe it to them to make sure what they read is correct?" would probably be persuasive.

--Andrew Whitworth

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