On 07/02/2008, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
they can now ask for funding from TAT for bringing out this sort of knowledge.
You're saying it's okay for local chapters to take funds from promotional agencies for improvement of specific articles? Not okay. Donations are fine. But with paid contributions we lost any credibility we had with the public.
I don't have any problem with people being paid to make NPOV, *non-conflicted*, improvements to subject areas. There have been cases of this in the past, e.g. in linguistics, or paying someone to generally improve a given language's small Wikipedia or the [[m:Philip Greenspun illustration project]].
If they take care not to [[:en:Ghostbusters|cross the streams]], that's absolutely not a problem. Finding and furthering ways to sponsor creation of good content is *good*.
- d.