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

[Thomas Dalton]

On 27 July 2010 10:02, Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 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).

Who counts as involved? What do you weight the distribution by? Number
of edits is useless, number of words isn't much better.