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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 1:19 AM, FRED BAUDER
<fredbaud(a)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system (and in the process tries to teach how to resolve NPOV disputes, out
of date statements, and a few other backlog categories it tracks) while at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.
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