[WikiEN-l] Prizes and the British Museum and Wikipedia

[Charles Matthews]

Michael Peel wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2010, at 09:15, Charles Matthews wrote:
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>> Gwern Branwen wrote:
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>>> 'British Museum pays for Wikipedia page views'
>>> http://www.examiner.com/x-58002-Wiki-Edits-Examiner~y2010m7d26-British-Museum-pays-for-Wikipedia-page-views
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>> I decided to ignore the whole "prizes" aspect of the BM residency. 
>> That's a snarky piece, really, and there is no need for me to add to the 
>> snarkiness. But the idea of a wiki is collaboration, and any prizes that 
>> ignore that an article is developed by a team (how exactly do you divide 
>> up a £100 book prize among those who get an article to FA?) are 
>> basically misconceived.
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> Um ... £100 / (number of people involved)? or using a weighted distribution? Seems fairly easy to me, and definitely a lot easier than dividing up a specific prize (e.g. a book worth £100).
>
> Mike
> (Leaving aside that it's a general voucher, not book-specific.)
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So, [[Hoxne Hoard]] (not FA yet, might have been a contender), you'd 
comb through well over 1000 edits, parcel out credit for substantive 
edits, factor in photo credits, give some sort of reward for those to 
were constructive on the Talk page, I hope, rather than plunging in with 
additions that others had to sort out? I'm sure there would be no 
arguments at all from people awarded £2 for work they thought was worth 
at least £3.

The fact is that the underlying assumption was of a single-minded editor 
who'd be motivated by a prize to put in time to create an FA pretty much 
from scratch. Not our model of collaboration.

Charles