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Wikipedia To Spend $1.2 Million Improving 'Public Policy' Articles

Wikipedia To Spend $1.2 Million To Improve 'Public Policy' Articles
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Executive Tech Editor, The Huffington Post

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Instead, the good folks at Wikipedia, backed by $1.2 million from The Stanton Foundation, are looking to develop innovative methods of increasing the accuracy -- and thereby public trust -- of Wikipedia articles dealing with public policy; in other words, the most contentious and bitterly disputed matters this side of religion. It is the first time Wikipedia has singled out a specific subject area for this type of intensive self-improvement effort.

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