[Foundation-l] (fwd) Wikimedia Foundation will engage academic experts and students to improve public policy information on Wikipedia

[Amory Meltzer]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 20:05, Jay Walsh <jwalsh at 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