[Wikipedia-l] Paid adminstrator (Money.. Mark)

Mon Oct 13 02:28:02 UTC 2003

Delirium <delirium at rufus.d2g.com> wrote:

How is the notion of paying academics for their knowledge more anti-wiki 
than the notion of paying coders for their skills?

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Because the one is a service-- a skill, irrelevant of content, pov, etc. and the other is exactly as Danny said--  implied creation of an 'expert cabal' -- whose "expertise" trumps that of others. We dont pay for info, -- thats the point of making WP in the first place -- to pay for info is "anti-Wikipedia" IMHO.

That said, to pay someone to be an administrator, as Larry Sanger was-- is an entirely different matter.

~S~

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