Quick, non-neutral comments on the article, abridged for people on the go:

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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.

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*An image titled "Wikipedia's advertising revenue potential*

See above

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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*

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...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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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?

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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

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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@gmail.com wrote:

On 26 April 2017 at 00:06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

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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

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I have a number of thoughts on this, all negative: https://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2017/04/25/wikipedia-

right-but-on-the-blockchain/

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Jimbo wasn't impressed either: https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/856060215577464833

• d.

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

-- geni

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