Timwi wrote:
Stan Shebs wrote:
Universities tend to be a little more standoffish about this sort of thing; faculty and students are focused on their studies, and the unwashed masses of the general public 1/2 :-) are an unwelcome distraction.
Would it help if one of the Wikipedians is a student of the University in question, and the session is done this summer before the beginning of the next term?
If said student was the child of a top donor, perhaps. :-) Not to be too cynical, but students are pretty low in the academic hierarchy. I think it would take a dean or full professor who was a WP enthusiast to have sufficient pull to arrange to commandeer part of the university's library - we have some academics on this list, perhaps they could weigh in on what they think they could arrange at their own institutions.
Stan