He described these articles as read only.
Fred
From: David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:18:08 +1000 To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: send in the academics
Andrew Lih (andrew.lih@gmail.com) [040731 12:18]:
Also, what Abe describes would likely be incompatible with the "no original research" policy we've had for a while. Rather, Wikipedia (and most encyclopedias) are secondary source works, not primary battlegrounds for ideas.
Not necessarily [[original research]]. What Abe seems to be describing (please correct me if I'm wrong) is doing something to create more quality work, to academic standards, that would then available under GFDL or a compatible license. That is, something to get the quality work produced.
This need not necessarily be done on Wikipedia. I'm not sure what he describes would fit with the Wikipedia way of doing things, but that doesn't mean it isn't a very good idea to have happen somewhere. It's a project worth thinking about. If credit will get quality academics to contribute, then how do we get credit to work properly in a Wiki environment? That sort of thing.
- d.
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