Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
This may answer some of your questions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=wikimoney&go=Go
Fascinating. Thanks! I never noticed that. For the curious, this seems to be the main description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimoney
And this is a nice collection of reactions to it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiMoney/Archive_%28initial_rea...
Given the small number of actual transactions, it looks like it was never very popular. It's interesting to me that even this wasn't a top-down approach, unlike a lot of more common reward systems. But it does have another characteristic that the "Punished by Rewards" author warns against, which is using rewards to manipulate others for your own ends.
Thanks again for pointing this out.
William