[WikiEN-l] Wiki editing prize

[Gabe Johnson]

On 6/14/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:18:35 -0700 (PDT), Jamie Cooper
> <newwikifan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >http://digg.com/design/Centiare_Prize_2007_cash_for_best_wiki_designs
>
> Redux: other methods having conspicuously failed, Gregory Kohs is now
> trying bribery.
>
> His fundamental problem is, in my view, that volunteer article writers
> don't see much mileage in contributing to a project where the subject
> gets the final say in the content - what is the attraction of
> carefully documenting a company, warts and all, if the company's PR
> people have a right of veto?  Of course some people will sign up to
> promote their own interests, we get that on Wikipedia as well, but
> these people do not generally make good contributors because they have
> no real interest outside of their own financial gain.
>
> I was on the Centiare front page at one point, because I opined that
> the project was dead in the water.  Kohs' riposte was to post a
> slightly selective Alexa traffic graph showing a sudden growth.
> Extending the axis back a month showed that the peak was no better
> than the previous peak, from which it had dropped off very sharply,
> and last time I checked Alexa the traffic over the last few months was
> low and flat.  Who needs a project which exists to document what
> companies want said about themselves?  For this we have Google.
>
> Guy (JzG)
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>
>
... and I actually participated in Centiare at one point. Oh well. ~~~~

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