Ray Saintonge wrote:
I would be wary of any scheme to pay people for articles. We have
prided ourselves on an all volunteer production in all languages.
The first major contributors to Wikipedia were paid (or at least Larry
Sanger was). I don't see the problem with this. The main incentive is
not just to have certain articles written for money, but actually to
start the Wikipedia itself, i.e. to hope that a community would form.
The one thing that is not mentioned in the discussion
is who would fund
this proposal.
Fund what? My proposal suggests that Wikipedians offer the money.
Anyone can offer as much as they like for as many articles as they like.
Timwi