Guys, I think you're reading more into it than it is. When you're adopting an animal you don't get to decide what and how much it gets to eat. Similarly adopting a wiki page wouldn't mean you pay for having a say on the content. At the bottom end of the reward scale you could get a badge you could put on YOUR website, without having your name on Wikipedia at all.
I'm not necessarely in favour of this idea but i wanted to see if it's been discussed before. I guess that if it has, people havebeen confusing this idea with paid editing. Pe sâmbătă, 30 martie 2013, Thomas Morton <morton.tho...@googlemail.com> a scris: > It's a weird dichotomy. > > I've spent several hundred quid on source material for my current topic > area. I could easily have spent several grand. > > Paid editing is a major issue, because it conflicts with our culture > > But if someone were able to buy my sources then it would be of huge > benefit. > > And, controversially, if someone could fund me one day a week to write > these articles I could likely expand from one GA per month to covering this > entire field in GAs in a year. > > Without that it will take me a good five years > > I've come recently to see that funding article work is not inherently an > awful thing. But it needs to be done with extreme care to protect our > ideals and neutrality. And that is a HARD problem. > > Tom > > On Saturday, March 30, 2013, Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> On Mar 30, 2013 1:04 AM, "Mono" <monom...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: >> > >> > How so? >> >> It would be completely against our culture. Wikipedia is a volunteer >> written encyclopedia. >> >> You would end up with a two-tier system of paid editors and unpaid editors. >> There would inevitably be a lot of conflict between those groups. The whole >> concept would be extremely divisive. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l