muzzle

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[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

There are multiple studies showing that paying volunteers can backfire in many ways. It could turn an hobby into a chore, attract the wrong kind of contributors, or sour those that do not have enough time to qualify for money. Plus, any metric you were to use to assign rewards would quickly be gamed by the wrong kind of people.

We can discuss about how much the administrators are paid and the many issues wikimedia has, but please, for the love of god, let's not pay editors.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

That's not the problem, 'tho. Wikipedia is volunteer-written and needs money to pay for the SW development and the servers.

The issue is that they are not upfront about their strategy and that they are resisting unionization by the workers who develop the software.

A leading wikimedia software developer (@brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net) lost her job a while ago, most likely due to her involvement in the unionisation effort.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I heard the final goal is to amass enough money to live fully off the capital gains.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I really do not understand why those people would represent just a country and not Europe. By the same logic, they may represent only their region, or their town.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The downside is that there would be buildings on the other side of the bank notes.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It kinda did but it was supplanted by Arabic.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's Vigo von Homburg Deutschendorf redneck cousin!

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Look back, lock back, Andromeda was black!

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

The concept of a control sword, used to measure the placebo effect of being handed a sword by the lady of the lake, offers interesting research opportunities.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

You should watch it in vhs.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Very interesting, but... Ai generated slides, 🤮

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Much desire (lemmy.nz)
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This desire path is official enough to be shovelled in case of snow, but not official enough to get paved.

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