On 12/17/07, Omegatron omegatron+wikienl@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder if the potential exists for a Wikipedia clone to make revenue from ads, and then distribute that revenue to the "best" editors based on trust networks and metrics of neutrality, etc. Reward people for making desirable edits that are neutral, reliably sourced, civil, and so on. If they set it up well and kept the open source licensing, I'd migrate.
The idea of paid editing has been discussed several times, and there is a good argument that it's not desirable to pay editors to write for Wikipedia, even if it were possible. People approach tasks very differently if they are rewarded than if they are not. And then of course, every system that uses metrics to determine rewards can, and most certainly will, be gamed. Then the game will overwhelm the original goal.
Steve