[WikiEN-l] Citizendium hits 5000 articles

[Sage Ross]

On Jan 23, 2008 5:24 PM, Ian A Holton <poeloq at gmail.com> wrote:

> IMHO, Wikipedia should - at some point - do a recruiting drive for
> academics to get more involved with specialist subjects.
>

I've been trying to do this, within my field.  This went out to most
historians of science in the Americas and the UK:
http://hssonline.org/publications/Newsletter2008/NewsJan2008Ross.html
.  I've gotten a fair number of emails about it, all of them positive
so far.  Some of them said they planned to get involved, though I
haven't seen much on-wiki activity from them yet.  Academics can be
receptive to the idea, especially if an appeal to edit is coming from
a colleague.  If you're involved with any sort of professional
academic society, try getting a short letter about Wikipedia into
their newsletter or main professional news outlet; the editors of such
things are likely to jump at the chance to publish something about
Wikipedia related specifically to their field.

-Sage (User:Ragesoss)