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 ?
If Wikipedia paid authors
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Re: If Wikipedia paid authors
#2It might promote machine learning ;)
Re: If Wikipedia paid authors
#3In 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.
Re: If Wikipedia paid authors
#4Probably 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.
Re: If Wikipedia paid authors
#5Probably 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
If 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.
Re: If Wikipedia paid authors
#6Probably 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
If 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.
This sounds largely like Google Knol. (http://knol.google.com/k)
I don't think that is generally thought of as a very successful undertaking.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
If 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.
This sounds largely like Google Knol. ( http://knol.google.com/k ) I don't think that is generally thought of as a very successful undertaking.
thanks for that..