On 12/12/05, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org>
wrote:
Kyle Lutze wrote:
On a more general note, it would be really cool to
get more paid
people onboard, such as Tim Starling, and some editors that'll
complete stubs. maybe even some sort of bounty system for the articles
that could use being done but nobody wants to do?
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've got an idea: when you come up with an idea that would
fundamentally change the nature of Wikipedia, why don't you just get a
group of people together to start a fork?
I honestly do wonder how long it will be before the first Great Pedia
Fork takes place. I've found the standard germ time for idea cycles to
overturn is about 7 years, which means that we've got another three
years to go...
Ugh... 3 more years until we've got a 'pedia that consists entirely of
AFD entries?? I can't wait!