Love the idea to have interns contribute their research. People write about what interests them, but they also write about what they know–and who better to contribute than someone who has spent the summer immersed in a topic? At the edit-a-thon there was a student from UC Berkeley who told me about some experiments on campus to have students contribute articles on Wikipedia in lieu of more traditional assignments. He said there was some skepticism at first, but very quickly the students grew enthusiastic about being able to make a contribution that would last well beyond their semester.

I do think it is about who is doing the writing. I was thinking about asking my interns to add articles from their research this summer just in a small effort to help the situation.