Talk:A fair, effective and free rewarding system for Wikipedia volunteers

I'd prefer some sort of postcard-ware scheme (like what Linus did with Linux IIRC, he asked folks to send him postcards from their locale). We don't want to compete with Wikimedia for donations. --wikt:user:eean 19:38, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This would be a very profound change. Incentive to wrote good articles on Wikipedia should not come from an empty wallet. I do not like this idea. --Wikipedia user: NoPetrol 05:08, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

While I agree this is a good idea in principle, I have some concerns about its effectiveness. -- With the "grading" system, what is to stop authors and emotionally involved individuals from creating an army of sockpuppets to promote their own work? In content management, there are various ways to control this (dedicated volunteers, temporary page freezing. marking for disputed neutrality) - but how would a ratings system be kept functional if people started abusing it? --With financial rewards, I have the same concern as eean, that we might be siphoning money away from the wikinmedia project as a whole. --Umbra-dweller 10:51, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

A wiki is a gift culture. See ESR's reference to hackerdom as such; the same applies here. Adalger 07:17, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC) (P.S.: Please don't leave unclosed <p> tags laying around.)