CZ Talk:Become a Partner

You know that the Library of Congress has begun hosting certain of its images on flickr, and inviting contributors to fill in details about them. They don't know about them so they are trying to garner "the wisdom of the crowds". If CZ did this with the LOC--this could be an enormous opportunity for CZ...but not yet, as there simply are not enough experts willing to add data about the photos. Stephen Ewen 01:09, 9 February 2008 (CST)

You could add another page, Steve: ideas for specific partnerships. --Larry Sanger 01:22, 9 February 2008 (CST)

I fear that a potential Yahoo-Microsoft might impact this project (as Yahoo is Flickr's parent company) --Robert W King 06:50, 9 February 2008 (CST)

Promotion and tenure credit

I like this idea. I think as some point, it needs tweaking. I doubt a P&T committee would be willing to take the initiative to go over someone's CZ edits, but if CZ could output a report that the author could add to the P&T packet. The report could summarize the amount of edits, the number of sources cited, and then some statement that this CZ suggests this author has done the equivalent of x.x number of review articles. Then the report would include some representative edits (or a link to all of the edits) so the committee could judge the quality of the faculty member's work.

If authors knew of this, it seems it would both motivate more edits and higher quality edits.

These are initial ideas, does anyone have suggestions to improve this? - Robert Badgett 20:07, 10 February 2008 (CST)