[Wikipedia-l] Re: Money, money...

Wed Oct 29 21:40:29 UTC 2003

"Daniel Mayer" skribis:

> But what I am mainly interested in is the hiring of college professors who 
> teach a particular language to do what Larry did for the English Wikipedia 
> (except in a part time capacity). Why such a specific criteria? Because we 
> could suggest to the instructor (or require him/her) to give his or her 
> students a choice to obtain part of their grade (and extra credit) by 
> translating Wikipedia articles or even create new ones from scratch. This 
> would potentially add dozens of Wikipedians contributing to a small Wikipedia 
> overnight. 

Do you think of professors in US colleges, which teach
the language in question (to students having English
as native language), or of professors in a country
of the given language itself (so the language will
be native to most students).

Which of these alternatives you would prefer?
Why?

Paul