So, help me understand something. Wikipedia is free and open to editing, by anyone. It’s estimated that hundreds of thousands of people have made at least 10 edits to the English Wikipedia. There is a trove of guidelines and help pages, all authored for free by volunteers.
Why, then, was a $1.2 million grant from the Stanton Foundation needed to kick-start this university-based “Public Policy Initiative� Who is pocketing that $1.2 million?
I suppose the money ends up being spent the way it was spent here:
http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-nati...o-books-printedGood luck, Spartans. I think you’ll find your Wikipedia experience will feel a lot like the 2005 football game against Ohio State, just before halftime. Wikipedia’s biography of coach John L. Smith covers that fiasco pretty well.