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

Thu Aug 18 16:51:26 UTC 2005

But with smaller wikipedia, we should be very concerned since if we pay 
people to write content, we will be pointed out as trying to impose our 
opinions to sovereign countries : neo-colonialism is always a danger...

Maybe we should not be the ones paying for content.

daniwo59 at aol.com a écrit :
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> In a message dated 8/18/2005 11:44:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
> jwales at wikia.com writes:
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> Thanks Jimmy, 
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> As I clarified in a later email, my problem is not in small Wikipedias like  
> Bambara, where seed money can be necessary to get the project off the ground. 
> In  fact, I was one of the original people to propose this. Rather, my concern 
> is  with well established with Wikipedias, like English, German, French, 
> Italian, or  Japanese, where the money is being used to promote personal or 
> corporate  interests. 
>  
> Danny
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