On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.w...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Exactly what David said. > -- > ~Keegan > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan > > Aye, there is a group who will never really be able to fit in (I generally think of them as the "elitist" side of the academics but that isn't really the best way to describe them I think). I do think that there are a lot who aren't really engaged who could be brought in though. Other then the "elitism" group I think most of the other problems they have can at some level be overcome by showing them the opportunities and benefits. The Public Policy Initiative that the Foundation is starting sounds like a great idea to get some thoughts on how to do this (both helping to incorporate the grad and undergrad students but also the profs by showing them exactly how much it can do). In the end however we are going to have to be able to expand it to other disciplines and find good ways for us to do it on a larger (and more volunteer run) scale. There was an interesting point that I saw a couple weeks ago (I think it was in the Initiatives State 1 report, perhaps it was just in the description on OutreachWiki). Basically it was talking about who had the most time to edit. Undergrads had the most, Grads and Professors tended to be more focused on academic papers/books for work reasons and then the Retired Professors had more time again. I think we could still get a fair amount of Grad students and active Professors but the Retired/Emeritus Professors would be another good group to try and target (and one I believe that will be less focused on by the current Initiative) I know we have some, but there are tons more out there ;). James Alexander james.alexan...@rochester.edu jameso...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
