One billion dollars, judiciously invested, is an income of present-day value around 20 to 30 million dollars a year for ever. That would buy any of the following
* One reasonably expensive book per month for every one of the 30,000 most active content contributors for ever * 300 full-time permanent employees -- programmers, fact-checkers, old-style editors, translators, innovators, researchers * 200 ongoing Ph.D-level research projects in data science, knowledge management, knowledge delivery, artificial intelligence, machine translation * Fully-paid bursaries to Wikimania every year for ten people from each of the 250 largest projects; * JSTOR subscription for ever for the 30,000 most active content contributors; * Local travel bursaries to Wikimedia meetups and conferences for everyone who ever contributes to the project; HTH "Rogol" On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 4:51 AM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 1:19 AM, FRED BAUDER <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I think we could hire professional fact checkers and target articles that > > have gotten off track. I don't think a great deal of money would be > > necessary to set an example, and illustrate some of our notorious > problems. > > > This is what the AROWF system from last year's Google Summer of code was > supposed to show how to support: > > https://priyankamandikal.github.io/posts/gsoc-2016-project-overview/ > > <https://priyankamandikal.github.io/posts/gsoc-2016-project-overview/>This > year the CMUSphinx project is building an interactive voice-response > computer-aided instruction system which teaches people how to use the AROWF > system (and in the process tries to teach how to resolve NPOV disputes, out > of date statements, and a few other backlog categories it tracks) while at > the same time remediating spoken English pronunciation. I am currently > consulting at a company in Beijing which has 23 million customers in > China's K-6 public schools, They have offered to help collect some of the > data required to build this system, and the GSoC student assigned to it has > been doing pretty well. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
