Online encyclopedia will pay the authors

A notable event in the life of the largest online encyclopedia happened this week. The Wikipedia Foundation’s Wikimedia Foundation received a $ 20,000 donation from Philip Greenspun, a professor at the University of Massachusetts of Technology (Philip Greenspun), who wished the money to be spent on purchasing professional illustrations for articles. His arguments seemed convincing to the foundation's advice, and now he invites artists to collaborate on 50 articles selected to begin with.



According to Professor Greenspun, the main contribution of the publisher of the printed encyclopedia to its value is the addition of high-quality illustrations. Due to this, the same Encyclopedia of Britannica , despite the lag in the coverage of the newest phenomena and events from its network opponent, is in many ways still a more valuable source of information than it is.



Foundations can offer their work to all who wish, but only the best of them will be selected for insertion into articles. Their authors will receive $ 40 apiece. In fact, this is the first time that Wikipedia will pay its authors.