On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:06 +0000, Thomas Dalton 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.
Not necessarily, in my opinion. I believe that anybody who has managed to get into university and has at least spend a term there knows how to research facts and source/cite them using the citation methods used on Wikipedia.
Ian [[User:Poeloq]]