[WikiEN-l] Get PAID to make content for Wikipedia!

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com>:

> On 11/2/07, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
>> b) it ruins our Tom Sawyer approach to get so many editors. If we 
>> start paying
>> some people to whitewash the fence, whitewashing looks a lot less fun.
>
> Isn't this more or less what I said in my (quite unpopular) response
> to the "[WikiEN-l] Could we use a chore wheel?" thread...

Yes, although I'd argue that the chore wheel situation might be a bit 
different
because even with all our propaganda some things are clearly not fun but need
to get done. As long as we can convince people that most things are fun we're
in good shape.