2008/5/1 Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com:
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:12 PM, daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Paid editing? Would the community go for that?
Open source software groups have been supplying funding and grants to volunteer developers for a long time. A chapter could post a bounty for a particular task that it wants to see completed: a page/article being written, a set of pictures taken, some source documents faithfully uploaded, etc. Applicants write proposals, complete the task to a prescribed standard of quality within a certain time frame, and collect the bounty.
We've had more than a few cases of organisations subsidising editors; generally to fill out an area, rather than to slant coverage. Funding better coverage of a subject seems to work okay. Then there's donating work to Commons.
- d.