I can't understand this. If someone wants to pay to have a qualified person write a Wikipedia article, and that article meets all of the style guidelines and requirements of the site, what's the big deal? Writing good Wikipedia articles is a skill like any other, and I can't understand his insistence on it remaining am amateur endeavor.
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I've only been seeing a couple of updates a week, and today my RSS feed has been loaded with yummy opensource.com goodness.
I use Wikipedia a lot, but I soured on it when Jimmy Wales came out and said, basically, that anyone paid to write Wikipedia articles would be banned:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/13/1824225/Should-Wikipedians-Edit-Stories-For-Pay
I can't understand this. If someone wants to pay to have a qualified person write a Wikipedia article, and that article meets all of the style guidelines and requirements of the site, what's the big deal? Writing good Wikipedia articles is a skill like any other, and I can't understand his insistence on it remaining am amateur endeavor.