Re: [Foundation-l] (fwd) Wikimedia Foundation will engage academic experts and students to improve public policy information on Wikipedia

2010-05-12 Thread Sydney Poore
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga < everton...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/5/11 Amory Meltzer : > > > So if I could distill this announcement, it would be "$1.2M to liaison > > with profs to essentially grade public policy articles so that our > > unpaid volunteers can corre

Re: [Foundation-l] (fwd) Wikimedia Foundation will engage academic experts and students to improve public policy information on Wikipedia

2010-05-11 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
2010/5/11 Amory Meltzer : > So if I could distill this announcement, it would be "$1.2M to liaison > with profs to essentially grade public policy articles so that our > unpaid volunteers can correct errors, add sources, and fix the > proverbial 'awk' in the margins" - is that correct? "Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] (fwd) Wikimedia Foundation will engage academic experts and students to improve public policy information on Wikipedia

2010-05-11 Thread Amory Meltzer
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 20:05, Jay Walsh wrote: > Wikipedia is written by hundreds of thousands of volunteers from around the > world, and that won't change with this project. The Wikipedia Public Policy > Initiative will recruit Wikipedia volunteers to work with public policy > professors and

Re: [Foundation-l] (fwd) Wikimedia Foundation will engage academic experts and students to improve public policy information on Wikipedia

2010-05-11 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > It would be nice if public policy documents were systematically > archived onto Commons and Wikisource as part of this initiative. Yes! Likewise for legal and policy documents in all geographies -- we should make every effort for this pro

Re: [Foundation-l] (fwd) Wikimedia Foundation will engage academic experts and students to improve public policy information on Wikipedia

2010-05-11 Thread John Vandenberg
It would be nice if public policy documents were systematically archived onto Commons and Wikisource as part of this initiative. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/m