On 07/01/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Yes, if you can find the funding, it would be great. We should target post-grads, rather than under-grads, though. The information added will be much more reliable.
We've had some great stuff from students set the assignment of writing for Wikipedia *and having to do so in a manner acceptable to Wikipedia*. e.g.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/29/wikipedia http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071030-prof-replaces-term-papers-with...
Dig this first edit. :-O
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deforestation_during_the_Roman_per...
Set them loose on the red link lists at the bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIP
- d.