[Wikipedia-l] An idea

[Mark Williamson]

Sorry, but your last sentence is a bit confusing to me.

Are you trying to say "the Polish Wikipedia would be part of
assignments to add bibliographies, annotation, and various other
activities"?

Mark

On 04/06/05, Stirling Newberry <stirling.newberry at xigenics.net> wrote:
> 
> On Jun 5, 2005, at 1:31 AM, Sj wrote:
> 
> > On 5/24/05, Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:04:02PM +0200, Angela wrote:
> >>> On 5/24/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> >
> > What Chad said.  Wikipedia will be recognized as an unparallelled
> > reference work soon enough, without anyone apologizing for its muddy
> > openness.  And I think that we will see small scalable gains by
> > improving the way we recognize excellence and expertise in
> > subject-areas -- say, by avoiding the initial stages of certain edit
> > wars, by improving the efficiency of RC-patrol, watchlist-patrol, and
> > article/subject reviewing.  But it seems far more interesting to me to
> > emphasize that our success emerged from the mud and with its help,
> > than to assure everyone that the mud can be washed off.
> >
> > It isn't clear to me that the project would have become such a success
> > /without/ contributions from dedicated kooks, eccentrics, trolls, and
> > people who are just plain misguided in their convictions.  Explicitly
> > focusing on credentials might well reduce contribution; even in its
> > absence, the most common reason my brilliant iconoclastic US friends
> > give me for not writing about <whatever they're reading / studying> in
> > Wikipedia is that they are "no expert" on the subject.
> >
> > --SJ
> > _______________________
> 
> In a world that is moving to greater transparency, wikipedia is, in
> fact, a model. Consider being able to earn one's degree by writing on
> wikipedia. Edit articles, have a thesis advisor review contributions,
> and score credit appropriately. Adding bibliography, annotation and
> other activities which "polish" wikipedia would be part of assignments.
> 
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