Michael Peel wrote:
On 27 Jul 2010, at 09:15, Charles Matthews wrote:
Gwern Branwen wrote:
I decided to ignore the whole "prizes" aspect of the BM
residency.
That's a snarky piece, really, and there is no need for me to add to the
snarkiness. But the idea of a wiki is collaboration, and any prizes that
ignore that an article is developed by a team (how exactly do you divide
up a £100 book prize among those who get an article to FA?) are
basically misconceived.
Um ... £100 / (number of people involved)? or using a weighted distribution? Seems fairly
easy to me, and definitely a lot easier than dividing up a specific prize (e.g. a book
worth £100).
Mike
(Leaving aside that it's a general voucher, not book-specific.)
So, [[Hoxne Hoard]] (not FA yet, might have been a contender), you'd
comb through well over 1000 edits, parcel out credit for substantive
edits, factor in photo credits, give some sort of reward for those to
were constructive on the Talk page, I hope, rather than plunging in with
additions that others had to sort out? I'm sure there would be no
arguments at all from people awarded £2 for work they thought was worth
at least £3.
The fact is that the underlying assumption was of a single-minded editor
who'd be motivated by a prize to put in time to create an FA pretty much
from scratch. Not our model of collaboration.
Charles