<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Delirium <delirium@rufus.d2g.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<DIV><BR>How is the notion of paying academics for their knowledge more anti-wiki <BR>than the notion of paying coders for their skills?<BR><BR>---</DIV>
<DIV>Because the one is a service-- a skill, irrelevant of content, pov, etc. and the other is exactly as Danny said-- implied creation of an 'expert cabal' -- whose "expertise" trumps that of others. We dont pay for info, -- thats the point of making WP in the first place -- to pay for info is "anti-Wikipedia" IMHO.</DIV>
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<DIV>That said, to pay someone to be an administrator, as Larry Sanger was-- is an entirely different matter.</DIV>
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<DIV>~S~</DIV>
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