[WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com [mailto:charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 07:41 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium
>
>"David Gerard" wrote
>
>> Larry Sanger seems to be doing a lot of one-to-one outreach to
>> academia. If he can work out a way for contribution to a GFDL
>> encyclopedia to enhance an academic career, the growth in quality
>> contributions to the open content pool should be fantastic.
>
>The people slogging for tenure will do it? The professors won't delegate it to the grad students? The grad students won't be the people who are already writing for us?
>
>If Larry gets tenure-track people to believe it will help them, then it really might be a breakthrough. 
>
>Charles
>

I think any of us, if asked, should be willing to write recommendations for contributors. Whether they will have traction will depend on how knowledgeable and intelligent the person considering it is.

Fred