Quick, non-neutral comments on the article, abridged for people on the go:
> Wikipedia is the sixth most visited website in the
world. Therefore,
Lunyr sees the potential revenue from advertising on its platform
at a very
high level.
Of course, nobody has ever thought of planting ads on a Top 10 internet
site. Get this person a Nobel Prize or something.
> *An image titled "Wikipedia's advertising
revenue potential*
See above
> Once the platform matures as a knowledge base,
real-time contribution of
multi-language data shall be made available.
As opposed to a system that makes data available *as it is going through
this maturation process*
> ...an economic incentive is proposed to
contributors. They are rewarded
for their work and are therefore incentivized to
further increase the value
of the ecosystem
Because, as several millennia of civilization shows, people contribute if
and only if there's an economic incentive to do so.
> Three types of tokens are used in the Lunyr
network [One for buying ads
on the network, one for calculating how many ad-tokens
contributors
receive, one for participating in dispute resolutions]
I had a rant about complexity and people who despise it, but it doesn't fit
the margins of this email.
> Roadmap using astronomical terms as Stage names
My inner pedant wonders why "Interstellar" goes before "Supernova",
and why
"Nebula" comes before "Cosmic" and "why "Galaxy" is the
last stage.
>In the Lunyr whitepaper, the respective team is
listed and after some
research online, I see no reason to doubt the intentions of
the team
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell
lies?
> Likely, a website like Wikipedia will not
cooperate with Lunyr, as their
policy is strictly against advertising on their
platform and Lunyr is a
competitor.
Then, why mention it?
> Users have built some sort of reputation on
Wikipedia, which they are
looking to keep and maintain
I firmly believe that if there was an objectively better alternative than
Wikipedia, people would flood it, regardless of their in-site reputation.
See: People who contribute to other wikis
> I could also see myself as a future contributor to
the platform. But for
this, I will most likely monitor the project for a while
before starting
any contribution.
"I believe that this is a good boat and will not sink. I wish I could use
it to conquer the seas, but I will monitor it from the shore before I get
in"
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:02 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 26 April 2017 at 00:06, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Advertising-funded Wikipedia that micropays
participants from
advertising revenue, on the Ethereum blockchain! The important bit is
to give them startup money.
"Lunyr: Decentralized Wikipedia on the blockchain"
https://medium.com/@cryptojudgement/lunyr-decentralized-wikipedia-on-
the-blockchain-4072606d5fc5
right-but-on-the-blockchain/
Hmm they are taking their user interface from here:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/16219877/Wikipedia-Redesign-Concept
Which was the one that happened to be the target of the critique here
http://jgthms.com/wikipedia-redesign.html
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