On 1/9/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
geni wrote:
On 1/8/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
I think the consensus was, "It'll be humorous and perhaps a little sad to see how little they end up with after blowing $10 million," or maybe that was just my opinion on it.
FF
oh I don't know. They could currently afford to spend $11.02 per wikipedia article.
Which for the average expert is going to mean 5-10 minutes per article, only enough time for the most minimal fact-checking, let alone making it a "featured article". Even if you pinch down and say that a good reference needs only 100K articles, you're still only getting an hour or so on each.
If the source text written for free is well referenced an hour wouldn't be too bad. Of course, what people really seem to be missing is that the $10 million is merely the seed money. *If* they can get some good content created by that (even just 2000 articles would probably do it), there should be no problem raising more money (through donations, sales, services, etc.).
What did Wikipedia start with, half a million and one paid expert? Then Larry was fired for lack of funding. I'm sure in his opinion, if Wikipedia could have afforded to pay 10 times as many experts for twice as long, they wouldn't have the credibility problem they have today.
Anthony