Stevertigo wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
I think we should pay photographers and
illustrators. It's very
necessary, and uncontroversial.
Being an illustrator, I would not disagree with any funds coming my
way... but I would still like Brion, Erik, Magnus, *You and whoever else
has donated free custom code to get some first. Then maybe Mav's idea
for some "startup funds".. and with the last fifteen bucks...
~S~
I won't be accepting any money. As much as I'd like to do my bit for
Australia's CAD, I already spend far too much time on Wikipedia as it
is. My supervisor thinks my 6 hours per week of permissible paid work
should probably be spent teaching physics rather than programming, and I
have to say I can see his point.
It's true however that programmers are in oddly short supply. That's why
I switched from editing to programming. We have lots of people who are
willing to write articles on programming topics (albeit mostly on an
undergrad level), but very few who want to apply that knowledge in any
significant way. Perhaps our money would be better spent on increasing
the size of the development team, rather than paying hard-core
wikipediholics like myself for work that we would have done anyway.
-- Tim Starling.