[WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium

[Nina Stratton]

On 1/18/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think the first scenario would still be a major breakthrough;
> > requiring graduate students to write their literature papers for
> > Wikipedia is a whole different beast from (a few idealistic) graduate
> > students writing on top of their other duties.
>
> Wikipedia is written for the layman, a graduate student's papers are
> written for the expert. Writing for Wikipedia requires different
> skills than the ones graduate students are being tested on with their
> papers, and the skills currently being tested are required, so writing
> for Wikipedia would have to be in addition to, it can't be instead of,
> academic papers.
>
> Excellent point. I mainly copy edit for clarity and readability. An
encyclopedia just isn't any good if the average reader (or a learning child,
perhaps) can't or won't read it.

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Sincerely,

Nina
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