Delirium wrote:
Paying editors is another matter. In principle I would support it,
but we have to be *very* careful that it doesn't cause all sorts of
collateral problems, from people gaming any sort of bounty system to
get paid for crap work, to distortions in the community that might
cause greater harm than the paid writers help. It's not impossible to
do right, but I think it may be hard enough to not be worth it.
I think paid editors hired by Wikimedia is a Bad Idea (tm), and I guess
I'm not alone on this one.
*However*, a third party, someone not associated with Wikimedia, who
wants to spend some money on something good, but not just give to
charity (think Ubuntu Linux), could pay people to write/fix articles on
Wikipedia. That would be most welcome, IMHO.
Magnus