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If Wikipedia paid authors
Scenario:
Wikipedia is an ad supported site,
where authors were paid a % of total ad revenue,
depending on how popular the page they authored was.
Do you think this would promote higher quality content ?
- willvarfar 15y agoIt might promote machine learning ;)
- apakian 15y agoIn my spare time I tinker with content-recreation using wikipedia dumps. Imagine software that could find and generate content as good or better than the quality on Wikipedia. I guess skys the limit on how much you could make in ad revenue.
- haasted 15y agoProbably not. In a recent thread[1], the consensus seemed to be that introducing monetary rewards for community participation was a bad idea, that would largely cause people to game the system. I should think that your idea would encounter similar obstacles. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2986681 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2986681
- apakian 15y agoIf 10 authors wrote 10 versions of the page called /Bill_Gates it would still be upto a group/committee/public to decide which version is the most relevant/highest quality. The chosen author would then be entitled to whatever percent of the total ad revenue the site generated.
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