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

[SJ]

This sort of Chore Wheel sounds like a good idea to me...  SJ

On Nov 5, 2007 9:15 AM, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> Charlotte Webb wrote:
> > 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...
> >
>
> For what it's worth, in asking about a chore wheel I did not mean to
> suggest any system of payment or brownie points or one person
> controlling another person's work. It's all self-driven. I've tried to
> explain the concept better here in prep for getting the bot approved:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ChoreBot
>
> The main purpose is to allow you to set yourself a reminder to work on a
> task that you think is necessary but not much fun. For example, Saturday
> I spent some time handling CAT:CSD and WP:AN/I requests.
>
> I'd like to do that more regularly. For starters, ChoreBot will just
> remind me of that goal. Eventually it might do fancier things, like
> letting me know which of my chosen options is the most backlogged. Or
> graphing the amount of time spent on things. But all agency will stay
> where it belongs: in the hands of editors.
>
> William
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