QUOTE(Bob Boy @ Wed 30th July 2008, 6:17pm)
QUOTE(Cla68 @ Wed 30th July 2008, 6:38pm)
I didn't know that there were people actually offering money in Wikipedia to complete articles on certain topics. Looks to me like a good way for a poor college student (like I was at one time) to earn enough money for a night out after 20 hours of work or so on the computer.
Wait, what? WTF is the difference between the
Wikipedia:Reward board and what Greg Kohs was doing?
Well, these are not conflict-of-interest offers. You have, for example, somebody offering money for articles about Furries ($150 for a featured article-class article, which BTW is the highest amount I see on the list), but not about himself or his business. Or, another guy wants improvement in any article about Judaica, Alaska, or South Park. (One supposes he likes Kyle
a lot).
The main thing all this has in common, is work flows TO the foundation. The foundation never pays out for editing, but it allows OTHER people to donate time or money or anything else (no, I haven't seen an offer of sex yet (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/sad.gif) ) to YET OTHERS for editing that is guaranteed not to directly benefit anybody BUT the foundation.
Even more worthy of note in this regard is the
Bounty Board. Any user can make donation to the WMF in another user's name for a given editing job done. So Cla68, if you can improve
Fecal Matter (note the second cap, so this handily directs to the band, not the substance, so no need for a dab) to FA status, I can donate $10 in your name to WMF. Everybody wins. Unlike Kohs' evil scheme, which would introduce paid POVs into the pristine WP which now is mercifully free of any POV.
Hope that helps.
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