[WikiEN-l] Mechanical turks

[Jeff Raymond]

Gwern Branwen wrote:

> Yeah. And surprising amounts of work could be done for fairly
> cheap, though it adds up. For example, at a cent a link, every
> page listed on [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links]] could
> be done once for only $1243.3 or so. (Obviously if you want
> another Turker to doublecheck, that's another 1243.3, but since
> they'll be checked when the edit goes live and hits someone's
> watchlist, I don't see the point).
>
> So, anyone got a spare 1k and the technical chops to actually set
> it up?  :)

This may be a question more for the Foundation folks, but one wonders if
we couldn't get Amazon.com to donate $1000 or so to the Foundation and
then specifically earmark that for the Turk program.  An agreement like
that would certainly be beneficial for both projects, methinks.

-Jeff