On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:34 +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 07/01/2008, Ian A Holton poeloq@gmail.com wrote:
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.
University entry requirements are pretty low, and you don't usually get chucked out for being useless until at least the end of the first year. In my experience, plenty of people don't even get chucked out then - per capita funding, you see...
I'm not sure what country you are referring to, but from my experience getting into a decent university on a satisfactory course one should at least have some good grades and a decent character. I try not to be biased, but the American system seems to be slightly more acceptable to people with lower qualifications or less motivation.
Obviously, if this were to be planned one would need criteria having to be met (for example one can only be paid for edits on articles from ones field of study).
Ian [[User:Poeloq]]