[Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming

[Andrew Whitworth]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:13 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at 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