This is true enough, and there were brief experiments at paying people
to write in Ossetian and Bambara. At this advanced stage, however, we
can look backi at Larry's work as getting the ball rolling to the point
where there would be enough material for us to be noticed. There are
probably some lesser known languages where paying people for a limited
time would have a similar effect.
In the long run we need to recognize that the work done by our hordes of
volunteers has most often been damn good. We will always have pockets
that are full of problems, and we shouldn't dwell on these negatives in
the overall evaluation.
Ec
Ryan Wetherell wrote:
It's not very wiki-like, you're right, but
Wikipedia actually began
with one of the founders getting paid to write articles.
On 11/26/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
>Paying people to write articles would be a whole new ballgame, and
>probably very un-wiki.. There would be no more effective way of
>creating a class of vested interests with certain visions of how they
>want the project to look. We all want better coverage, but at what cost?
>