On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 16:49 +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 07/01/2008, Charlotte Webb
<charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/7/08, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You want to send someone through med school for
the sole purpose of
them writing Wikipedia articles afterwards? Interesting idea...
I think you misunderstood the hypothetical scenario, which is based on
the premise that editing Wikipedia is more exciting than mowing lawns,
flipping burgers, or selling products door-to-door (to cover any
extant deficiency in financial aid). Incidentally I'm sure some would
dispute this premise. Obviously one would go to med school to pursue
their own dream of becoming a surgeon or a dermatologist or whatever.
Ah, you mean editing in their spare time to fund their way through med
school? I think that's one serious problem with that - you don't get
spare time in med school. It's very intensive.
However, all this might actually be a good idea. Paying students to edit
Wikipedia might be a way of funding research into new knowledge and also
help receive current knowledge in a form suitable for Wikipedia.
Obviously, one would have to find funding for such a thing. AFAIR, the
German Wikipedia received funding from the German government and a
private company for a project that was used for paid contributors.
Ian [[User:Poeloq]]