Presentation

Hello - we are Amanda, Bruno, Franny, Hector and Yosuke of the Cyberlaw: Difficult Problems course. Feedback from people who use and are familiar with Wikipedia/Wikimedia is an extremely important part of formulating our proposed solution, and we thank you for your interest and contributions. We only ask that you direct your comments and input to the other Future of Wikipedia pages, and allow us to use this Presentation page to create our final class presentation. We look forward to hearing from you!

Selected Key Problems to Address

- quality of content

- decreasing editor base

- outreach and public relations

Different Perspectives on the Key Problems

- Bridgespan

- Wikimedia

- Wikipedia Review

- general public (Mechanical Turk responses)

Proposed Solution

- utilizing crowdsourcing techniques to highlight disputed content

- strengthening relationship to secondary school system

- Launch a campaign to increase Wikipedia's user base: Donate edits to Wikipedia.

Implementation

- API

- lesson plan proposal