> The problem is that the benefits are going entirely to all your readers. It's practically a case-study in positive externalities [...] when you make 10,000 ed

> The problem is that the benefits are going entirely to all your readers. It's practically a case-study in positive externalities [...] when you make 10,000 edits to Wikipedia, you are guaranteed to get nothing. How could that be changed? One problem is that if people gained something worthwhile, some would game the system.