German Wikipedia gets state money
p2pnet.net news:- Germany will be “setting aside part of its budget” to upgrade German Wikipedia entries on renewable resources, says Heise Online.
“A number of key words already have excellent entries in the German Wikipedia” within the field of renewable resources, the story has Andreas Schütte, executive director of the Renewable Resources Agency (FNR), stating.
FNY is funded by the German Ministry of Nutrition, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection to conduct research on renewable resources, “with an eye to launching products on the market,” says the story, going on, “At the same time, Schütte says that a number of key words in the German Wikipedia have very short descriptions, are not up to date, or are missing entirely.”
Entries well be improved, “under the direction of the private-sector Nova Institute,” says Heise Online.
“The Institute plans to get external experts to write entries on renewable resources for Wikipedia. These experts will first receive training for Wikipedia because collaboration in the community project has its pitfalls. The Institute is therefore looking for someone well versed in Wikipedia to handle project coordination.”
Project partners have already issued a call for tenders for the position and are inviting Wikipedia experts to apply.
“The challenge will be to motivate experts who have done good work in other projects to get involved in the community lexicon,” the story continues.
“Such expert reports are usually written, edited, and published in the normal newspapers or even on other websites,” it quotes project director Florian Gerlach saying.
“But Wikipedia is radically different: articles there continually grow with input from numerous authors, who often remain anonymous. The end product is constantly changing, and third parties can publish their own texts or even change yours.” The future authors will therefore receive some training to help them work with Wikipedia.”
Deutsche Telekom recently gave the the German Wikipedia 20,000 euros (about $26,877) because Wikipedia content had been integrated in its own websites, adds Heise Online.
Also See:
Heise Online – German Wikipedia receives state funding, June 26, 2007
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