[WikiEN-l] Bounties for editors

Wed Apr 19 08:25:18 UTC 2006

Matt R schrieb:
> The following link:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Now_Hiring
> 
> is to a deletion debate on a page for bounties (cash etc) for bits of
> work on the project. I believe such a page would be a good thing.
> Arguments in favour follow:

What's the difference to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bounty_board ? It seems like a
duplicate.

> It's worked fine, as far as I can tell, on the German edition since
> last July, and in a number of free software/open source communities.

Some notes about the efficiency of the german variant: When the page
(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Auftragsarbeiten) was set up
there was a lot of activity on the page, especially in the tit for tat
category  ("offer exchange of one featured article about an animal for
one featured article about" etc). This went on for a while until the
initial storm calmed down and now the page is almost unused. It seems
that such pages work better as temporary special events than as durable
institutions.

greetings,
elian
PS: the german page was on Vfd as well...