[Wikipedia-l] Re: Paid-for-articles WPs in smaller languages

[Milos Rancic]

There are a lot of Roma people in Serbia and they are very very poor.
Maybe it is better to organize some stipendies for some of them to
study and work on Wikipedia? Average salary in Serbia is around
$350/month, but I think it would be enough $100 for some yung Roma who
study high school or university. Romas in high school are very rare,
so it can be the target population. (I would waste a lot of time to
find some Roma who is studing something on university.)

I don't think that it is bad idea. Almost all of us are working on
Wikipedia in his/her free time, but a lot of small ethicities are
living very poor and they don't have enough of free time.

Wikipedia became important global cultural movement. And Wikipedians
should start to thinkg about helping other people to become a part of
their movement.

On 5/28/05, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
> V. Ivanov wrote:
> >
> > The idea is not absolutely new. We use the absolutely similar
> > approach at the Ossetic Wikipedia (we call it "Project <<Tskhinval
> > Teachers>>". The essence of the project is paying teachers from South
> > Ossetia a 2,5-USD equivalent for every article (up from 2500
> > characters).
> 
> Aw man! I would gladly pay that sum to anyone who can write articles in
> some of my favourite exotic languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Navajo, Nahuatl,
> Hmong -- all of these are million-speaker languages).
> 
> Maybe we should make this concept better known globally.  Maybe we
> should organise a list of Wikipedians who are prepared to give money to
> poor people in return for an article in a language that has an inactive
> Wikipedia.  The Wikipedians would be able to specify any conditions, but
> once their conditions are fulfilled, they should be legally obliged to
> pay out the money they offered.
> 
> Of course, for that to work, there needs to be a way of getting the
> message (and later, the money) to the people.  Maybe someone has a few
> ideas?
> 
> > http://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8
> > http://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%86%D1%86%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%8B-%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82
> 
> Maybe someone should add interwiki links to these.  :-)
> 
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