On Tuesday 15 February 2005 02:08, Mark Williamson wrote:
Uhhm... {{sofixit}}...
You could fix it very easily if:
- You make Wikipedia more attractive for experts, academics, scientists - You make sure no article gets forgotten by encouraging people to concentrate on their own articles, instead of editing here and there in the whole wiki - You allow these people to put their names and biographies in the articles they write - You help these people collect some donations from their readership. Wikimedia Foundation collects some donations for the servers, but it could also give some of it to the editors, too. - You make the articles to have versions, and have a "frozen" (protected) article in the mainspace, so that new contributions (which may be vandalism or whatever) go to an "under construction" version.
In our projects, such as http://www.nerdypc.org and http://www.adapedia.org (now being migrated to better software), we are trying to find ways to implement these ideas. You can read some preliminary analysis for our IT wiki at http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Help:Editing_process