Michael Peel wrote:
On 27 Jul 2010, at 09:15, Charles Matthews wrote:
Gwern Branwen wrote:
'British Museum pays for Wikipedia page views' http://www.examiner.com/x-58002-Wiki-Edits-Examiner~y2010m7d26-British-Museu...
I decided to ignore the whole "prizes" aspect of the BM residency. That's a snarky piece, really, and there is no need for me to add to the snarkiness. But the idea of a wiki is collaboration, and any prizes that ignore that an article is developed by a team (how exactly do you divide up a £100 book prize among those who get an article to FA?) are basically misconceived.
Um ... £100 / (number of people involved)? or using a weighted distribution? Seems fairly easy to me, and definitely a lot easier than dividing up a specific prize (e.g. a book worth £100).
Mike (Leaving aside that it's a general voucher, not book-specific.)
So, [[Hoxne Hoard]] (not FA yet, might have been a contender), you'd comb through well over 1000 edits, parcel out credit for substantive edits, factor in photo credits, give some sort of reward for those to were constructive on the Talk page, I hope, rather than plunging in with additions that others had to sort out? I'm sure there would be no arguments at all from people awarded £2 for work they thought was worth at least £3.
The fact is that the underlying assumption was of a single-minded editor who'd be motivated by a prize to put in time to create an FA pretty much from scratch. Not our model of collaboration.
Charles