Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-29 Thread Sylvain Boissel
There was also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiMoney before that but it never really worked either. Le dim. 27 janv. 2019 à 08:10, AntiCompositeNumber < anticompositenum...@gmail.com> a écrit : > The does > exist, but it doesn't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-28 Thread Pine W
prices every month, usually books or thing > related > > to technology. And people usually like to participate for the fun, and > for > > the prize. > > > ____________ > > > From: Wikimedia-l on behalf > > of Benjamin Lees > > > Sent: Friday, January 25,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-26 Thread AntiCompositeNumber
The does exist, but it doesn't seem to get much attention. On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 1:29 PM geni wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 16:07, John Erling Blad wrote: > > > > I was thinking about actually bounties, like in bug bounties from > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-26 Thread Jan Ainali
25, 2019 5:14 AM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties… > > It's interesting that you chose spellchecking as your example. On the > English Wikipedia, I tend to see that as an activity that some people > actually do find fun (or relaxing). Plus

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-25 Thread geni
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 16:07, John Erling Blad wrote: > > I was thinking about actually bounties, like in bug bounties from > larger software vendors. We have some "bugs", like spellchecking, > which is pretty easy to quantify, and that can be done as part of > bounties with cash. Yes, the ugly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-25 Thread John Erling Blad
r the fun, and for > > the prize. > > > ____ > > > From: Wikimedia-l on behalf > > of Benjamin Lees > > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2019 5:14 AM > > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-25 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
ices every month, usually books or thing related > to technology. And people usually like to participate for the fun, and for > the prize. > > > > From: Wikimedia-l on behalf > of Benjamin Lees > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2019 5:14 AM >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-25 Thread John Erling Blad
___ > From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of > Benjamin Lees > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2019 5:14 AM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties… > > It's interesting that you chose spellchecking as your example. On the > English Wikipedia, I tend

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-25 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
, and for the prize. From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of Benjamin Lees Sent: Friday, January 25, 2019 5:14 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties… It's interesting that you chose spellchecking as your example. On the English Wikipedia, I tend to see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-24 Thread Benjamin Lees
It's interesting that you chose spellchecking as your example. On the English Wikipedia, I tend to see that as an activity that some people actually do find fun (or relaxing). Plus, spelling errors (or perceived spelling errors[1]) are something that unregistered users really like fixing. But

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

2019-01-24 Thread Rehman Abubakr
Hello John, I thought about it too, in a slightly different angle, and maybe it is really not a bad idea. What I thought was more for people who are here for a while (maybe those who have been around for 2+ years, 5000 edits, whatever). More of a motivation for the older worn out