On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:13 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
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.
To give a good example, en.wikibooks has a known deficiency in books about basic mathematics: Arithmetic, Algebra, etc. Sometimes editors are hesitant to join in a book project until there is the necessary scaffolding available to "grab on to". I would certainly be willing to supply grants to editors willing to write initial drafts for these books, at least if I were in charge of distributing such grants.
Writing that kind of material for pay is a far cry different from paying a person to edit a BLP article about a controversial politician, or an article about creationism, or any other topic where slant and bias are going to be rampant.
--Andrew Whitworth