Wikipedia talk:WikiMoney

Vote for a standardized name and symbol, or against it (one vote per user):

Name	Symbol(s)	Votes
WikiDollars and/or WikiEuros	W$/W€	...
WikiSmiles	W:-), W:)	...
WikiWishes	W*	Eloquence
Wikiturtles	ψ	...
Wikikisses	???	...
Whatever: no set name	??	Tannin, sannse, Koyaanis Qatsi, Martin (the wiki way!), Rotem Dan, John Owens, AxelBoldt
Not sure about name	ψ (psi)	LittleDan, Martin (just the symbol), User:The Anome, Kingturtle

Hmm, was a table really necessary here? hammers and nuts, and all that ;-) Martin

Please, ANYTHING but a money connotation. Kingturtle 22:21 May 12, 2003 (UTC)~

I think the table makes things look slightly better, but I expected someone to complain.

I was afraid most people would vote for "no set standard". I disagree that this is the "wiki way". Inconsistency will simply mess things up in the long term and confuse newbies who try to participate. But well, whatever floats your boat. --Eloquence 00:46 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

How about removing the $/euro/smilies/turtles/rabits .. suffix altogether? and writing just W50 = 50 Wikis, W4 = 4 Wikis etc.. , everyone seems to agree about the W, it will also be more neutral -- it won't reflect any economic system or assosiation. I am being extremely brave and making this change, if it is reverted then what the heck, I wasted my time.. Rotem Dan 01:32 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

Well it's not as colourful... :-(

I still like using a ψ (psi), because it is unique in currency and it is not just a letter. LittleDan

Eloquence suggested to change the initial amount to 10 or 20 WikiSmilies, which are taken to be indivisible. I like it, and would go for 20, with everybody's accounts and offers divided by 5. Does anybody object? Question: what to do with W$ 1-3 offers? AxelBoldt 00:07 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

Maybe they should be rewritten like "do this 5 times to get W1", but if that doesn't apply, they should all be increaced to W1. LittleDan

Only one solution: Reduce them all to the same amount (W1).--Eloquence 03:24 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

Shouldn't there be some reward for starting a language Wikipedia that's in the top 10? haha (For the record, I think wiki money is stupid and too capitalistic, long live anarchism! But while we've got a system, I want more money. hahaha)

The alternative system

I want to start an alternative system. I haven't found a name yet, but I'll call them stars for now. It works like this:

there is no bank
give someone a star by posting on their user page. If they already have stars, increase their count. if not, create a count for them
you can't spend stars on anything. once they are yours, they're yours
giving stars does not decrease your own star count.
you can give stars if you have no stars
you can offer stars for things, but it's nice to also give stars for things you've seen done which you like
you don't have to say what you've given stars for

-- Tarquin 17:00 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

I think what we need to have in wikipedia is more like tradional credit system, which is commonly used in academic world. What I always feel in wikipedia is that even though I wrote a lot of articles, they are not given a proper credit to me. Well, history? It's not nearly good enough to give credits. If the article I primary wrote has a credit for me, I will certainly be proud of it. I also want to see who copyedited my Engrish to a good English-written encyclopedia article. -- Taku 23:06 May 14, 2003 (UTC)

I almost forgot that peer review is an essential for realiable reference book. How can you be so sure that China article has non-NPOV materials without a PhD of history. As opposed to Larry, I don't think we need some kind of software support for this. We can probably make a credit section or easily separete credit page for each article, which may be located in another namespace. WikiMoney is after all not actuall money but credit with articles can be in history! -- Taku 23:16 May 14, 2003 (UTC)

User:208.58.249.14, why did you take .8 wikimonies away from me and give them to Juuitchan? I've taken the .8 back until I understand what it was payment for. Kingturtle 05:39 16 May 2003 (UTC)

It was .9 WikiMonies, actually. And as I understand it, it seems to be for wikification of Campbell. I don't know if I'd call that .9 WikiMonies' worth, though. -- John Owens 05:46 16 May 2003 (UTC)

Naming

Let's say that 1 Wiki = 8 WikiBits = 100 WikiCents = 1000 WikiRin. --Juuitchan

How about dividing each Wiki into 20 Sillys, each Silly consisting of 12 Pixels. For particularly small transactions we could also have a ha'pixel. -- Silly Infrogmation

I think we should use SI units: 1 Wiki = 1000 milli-Wikis = 1,000,000 micro-wikis.......

W50.99

Oh, my God, are we starting with these terrible "psychological prices", even for Wiki-money? - Patrick 12:30 16 May 2003 (UTC)