If Wikipedia paid authors
Scenario:
Wikipedia is an ad supported site,
where authors were paid a % of total ad revenue,
depending on how popular the page they authored was.
Do you think this would promote higher quality content ?
depending on how popular the page they authored was.
Do you think this would promote higher quality content ?
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I guess skys the limit on how much you could make in ad revenue.
In a recent thread[1], the consensus seemed to be that introducing monetary rewards for community participation was a bad idea, that would largely cause people to game the system. I should think that your idea would encounter similar obstacles.
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2986681
it would still be upto a group/committee/public to decide which version is the most relevant/highest quality.
The chosen author would then be entitled to whatever percent of the total ad revenue the site generated.
I don't think that is generally thought of as a very successful undertaking.