[Foundation-l] Rewarding volunteers

[Jens Ropers]

On 12 Sep 2004, at 18:51, John Collison wrote:

> I have to say I agree with Jimbo on this one. I was thinking about 
> Wikipedia in the future for a while and I think we have to be careful 
> where we go from here. Think about it, Wikipedia started out with a 
> simple vision: a free encyclopedia where anyone could edit anything. 
> Now, sysops, developers etc are getting more power, anons less 
> trusted, and there is talk of paying developers. If we're not 
> cautious, we could end up just like a conventional online 
> encyclopedia. Sort of like the way animal farm went :-/.
> I think we should try and preserve the original idea of Wikipedia (and 
> Wikimedia projects in general).
>
>  -- John Collison (Ludraman)
>         P.S. Sorry if I've made some mistake here it's my first time 
> posting on the mailing list!

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	I <strong>STRONGLY</strong> second that!!!
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-- Jens [[User:Ropers|Ropers]]
     www.ropersonline.com