[Foundation-l] Jimbo's fantasy...

Tue Dec 13 04:42:47 UTC 2005

The Cunctator wrote:

>On 12/12/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
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>>Kyle Lutze wrote:
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>>>On a more general note, it would be really cool to get more paid
>>>people onboard, such as Tim Starling, and some editors that'll
>>>complete stubs. maybe even some sort of bounty system for the articles
>>>that could use being done but nobody wants to do?
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>>Paying editors is another matter.  In principle I would support it, but
>>we have to be *very* careful that it doesn't cause all sorts of
>>collateral problems, from people gaming any sort of bounty system to get
>>paid for crap work, to distortions in the community that might cause
>>greater harm than the paid writers help.  It's not impossible to do
>>right, but I think it may be hard enough to not be worth it.
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>I've got an idea: when you come up with an idea that would
>fundamentally change the nature of Wikipedia, why don't you just get a
>group of people together to start a fork?
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>I honestly do wonder how long it will be before the first Great Pedia
>Fork takes place. I've found the standard germ time for idea cycles to
>overturn is about 7 years, which means that we've got another three
>years to go...
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Ugh... 3 more years until we've got a 'pedia that consists entirely of 
AFD entries?? I can't wait!