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From: charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com [mailto:charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 07:41 AM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium
"David Gerard" wrote
Larry Sanger seems to be doing a lot of
one-to-one outreach to
academia. If he can work out a way for contribution to a GFDL
encyclopedia to enhance an academic career, the growth in quality
contributions to the open content pool should be fantastic.
The people slogging for tenure will do it? The professors won't delegate it to the
grad students? The grad students won't be the people who are already writing for us?
If Larry gets tenure-track people to believe it will help them, then it really might be a
breakthrough.
Charles
I think any of us, if asked, should be willing to write recommendations for contributors.
Whether they will have traction will depend on how knowledgeable and intelligent the
person considering it is.
Fred