[Foundation-l] 300 Euro for excellent Articles: an experiment

Jean-Baptiste Soufron jbsoufron at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 16:46:46 UTC 2005


> In general, I am also opposed to people paying for articles. I think that  
> this will be the first step toward a breakdown of a volunteer community. Imagine 
>  this scenario. If Danny is getting paid to translate or write articles, 
> maybe I  should too. Maybe I wont even write an article until I get paid for it. 

I completely agree with you. The fact is that we don't really need to 
pay people for writing articles since the encyclopedias seem to fill up 
quite well...

why change anything and take the risk to lose our credibility or our 
reputation.



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