On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 20:05, Jay Walsh <jwa...@wikimedia.org> 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 students to identify topic areas for improvement, and work to > make them better. Some of that work will take the form of classroom > assignments, and pilot activities will begin during the 2010 fall academic > semester. The project will continue through summer 2011.
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? ~Amory _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
