Wiki Project Med already has made steps in this direction in the area of
Medicine. Perhaps we could help bring together similar initiatives and give
them a framework to develop within.
--
Doug
On 25 March 2013 21:58, Stevie Benton
stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
> The money could bring in the skills and experience I think. If a project
> is worth doing, it's worth doing properly (with community involvement as
> the key, obviously). I think Rexx's idea is a very good one - and we
> already know Google loves Wikipedia.
>
> Stevie
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> On 25 March 2013 21:47, Thomas Dalton
thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> On 25 March 2013 21:43, rexx
rexx@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
>> > The most impact that we could realise on a global scale would be to
>> make the
>> > knowledge in the English Wikipedia available to people who don't speak
>> > English. £500,000 and Google technical support would go a long way to
>> > realising some of that goal.
>> >
>> > As the largest established chapter in the English-speaking world, the
>> onus
>> > should probably fall on us to coordinate an effort of that sort.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>>
>> I don't think we have anything like the skills or experience to make
>> good use of the money on that kind of project.
>>
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