One billion dollars, judiciously invested, is an income of present-day value around 20 to 30 million dollars a year for ever. That would buy any of the following
* One reasonably expensive book per month for every one of the 30,000 most active content contributors for ever * 300 full-time permanent employees -- programmers, fact-checkers, old-style editors, translators, innovators, researchers * 200 ongoing Ph.D-level research projects in data science, knowledge management, knowledge delivery, artificial intelligence, machine translation * Fully-paid bursaries to Wikimania every year for ten people from each of the 250 largest projects; * JSTOR subscription for ever for the 30,000 most active content contributors; * Local travel bursaries to Wikimedia meetups and conferences for everyone who ever contributes to the project;
HTH "Rogol"
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 4:51 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 1:19 AM, FRED BAUDER fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
I think we could hire professional fact checkers and target articles that have gotten off track. I don't think a great deal of money would be necessary to set an example, and illustrate some of our notorious
problems.
This is what the AROWF system from last year's Google Summer of code was supposed to show how to support:
https://priyankamandikal.github.io/posts/gsoc-2016-project-overview/
https://priyankamandikal.github.io/posts/gsoc-2016-project-overview/This year the CMUSphinx project is building an interactive voice-response computer-aided instruction system which teaches people how to use the AROWF system (and in the process tries to teach how to resolve NPOV disputes, out of date statements, and a few other backlog categories it tracks) while at the same time remediating spoken English pronunciation. I am currently consulting at a company in Beijing which has 23 million customers in China's K-6 public schools, They have offered to help collect some of the data required to build this system, and the GSoC student assigned to it has been doing pretty well. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe