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Open source articles are wanted for devtome, the open source wiki about anything:
http://www.devtome.com
==Requirements==
There are no notability requirements for the wiki, only the usual no malware, porn, shilling, plagiarism, libel, vandalism, hatchet jobs, scammy stuff or drivel. Articles must have proper punctuation, spelling and grammar. All contributions to devtome are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (wikipedia license). You can port your articles to devtome, for example articles from your own website or blog, you just have to show that you have the rights to your contribution. If you base your article on an open source article, you must make significant improvements and add an attribution section.
==Application==
To stop scammers, new writers have to request an account. The request should include a link to your posts or blog or wiki, or your biography, or at least 50 words of your first article. The message should be sent to Jasinlee on the the bitcoin forum. If you are porting your own article, you have to show that you have the rights to your contribution.
==Income==
Writers get a signing bonus, earnings per word, and a share of the advertising income. Also if a writer works well with others, they can become a devcoin administrator and get an extra share for administrative work. Now anyone can make coin, whatever they like writing about, wherever in the world they are.
Writers get more money in devcoins for writing what they wish then they can get anywhere else. The income is ongoing, there is no worry about layoffs or contracts running out. In time, as devtome gets bigger the devcoin value should rise.
===Generation Share===
A generation share is usually around 4 million devcoins. The value at vircurex is 0.0000018 BTC/DVC at the time of this writing. So each generation share is worth around 7.2 bitcoins. This times the price of 13.3 USD/BTC at Mt.Gox gives a total of 96 USD.
===Signing Bonus===
There is a first article bonus of four generation shares for the first ten writers, three generation shares for the next ten, then two generation shares for the next ten, and finally one generation share for the last ten. The article, or articles, must have total length of at least a thousand weighted words. Four signing bonuses have been sent out, six of the four share bonuses remain.
===Earnings per Word===
Original work gets a generation share per 1,000 words. The original work can be from your website, it can not be based off another article.
Collated work, which is largely based on another open source article, is also counted, although with a weighting of currently 0.3. The collated work can not be simply a copy of another article, it must have improvements and the type of improvements must be listed in the invoice.
===Earnings per Image===
Each image adds 10 words to the weighted word count.
===Advertising Income===
The advertising net income will be converted to devcoins through an exchange. The devcoins will then be handed out to the writers in proportion to their total weighted word count.
===Contribution Etiquette===
If a writer, Alice, contributes to Bob's article, then Bob should give Alice her share of the earnings by multiplying the number of words times the devcoins in a generation share, divided by a thousand. For example, if Alice contributes 195 words, and the typical generation share is 4,000,000 devcoins, then Bob should send Alice 195 * 4,000,000 devcoins / 1,000 = 780,000 devcoins.
===Administrative Work===
If you write for at least two months and intend to continue, you can apply to be inducted. If your work has been of good quality and you work well with others, you can become a devcoin administrator, and get another generation share for administrative work.
===Invoice===
To earn coins, after an administrator checks to see that the text is original or improved for collated work, the tomecount.py script will parse the user page, then count the words in the articles and calculate the payouts. An example snippet is pasted below, condensed from the unthinkingbit user page.
Please add links to your articles in the same format on your user page. Also, if you are on the bitcoinshare list please use the same coin address, so that if a dishonest writer edits your coin address the discrepancy will be noticed.
===Payment===
The tomecount script is run every round plus one thousand blocks and the payment goes out on the next round. For example, the script is run at the tenth round plus a thousand blocks, so at block 41,000 the payment is determined based on the number of words written and the payment is sent out during the eleventh round, between the blocks 44,000 and 47,999. Then the script will be run again at block 45,000 and the payment sent out in the twelth round, and so on. Ways to see the block number are described at the devcoin block explorer page.
==Devcoin Address==
Ideally you can run devcoin and get a new address.
However, if you can not install devcoin on your system you can put a bitcoin address for your coin address, and import the bitcoin address into devcoin in the future when there will be a devcoin binary that you can then install on your system. One way of importing that key is by following the README.txt instructions for the modified version of bitcoin tools which incorporates Matt Giuca's privkeyimport. Another way is to use Jackjack's pywallet, the instructions for which are in the Pywallet section at the bottom of Jackjack's post. It may be possible to import bitcoin keys into devcoin by simply copying the wallet file into the equivalent place in the .devcoin folder, although this has not been tried.
It is impossible to send generation shares into a vircurex deposit address, because the daemon does not provide any means to link back a generated block to an devcoin address, listtransactions only shows account information for received transactions.
Because Linux is more secure than Mac and Windows, it is a good idea to keep your coins on a Linux computer. For even more safety, you can get a separate Linux computer dedicated to storing coins. Large cities often have a store selling refurbished Linux computers; if there is no Linux store close to your place you can get one by mail from a place like usanotebook.com - Laptops with Linux, for less than 200 USD.
==Article Size==
If you are writing on an eclectic or little known topic, you can write an article of whatever size you want. If you are writing about a common topic, you should write a large, comprehensive article.
==Finance==
The idea behind devtome is that the generation shares pay people to write for the wiki, the advertising revenue from the wiki purchases devcoins on an exchange which causes the value of devcoin to rise, which means more money for writers, and so on. Because advertising rates are low, it will take at least a few months for the advertising revenue to be significant, but you have to start somewhere.
http://www.devtome.com
==Requirements==
There are no notability requirements for the wiki, only the usual no malware, porn, shilling, plagiarism, libel, vandalism, hatchet jobs, scammy stuff or drivel. Articles must have proper punctuation, spelling and grammar. All contributions to devtome are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (wikipedia license). You can port your articles to devtome, for example articles from your own website or blog, you just have to show that you have the rights to your contribution. If you base your article on an open source article, you must make significant improvements and add an attribution section.
==Application==
To stop scammers, new writers have to request an account. The request should include a link to your posts or blog or wiki, or your biography, or at least 50 words of your first article. The message should be sent to Jasinlee on the the bitcoin forum. If you are porting your own article, you have to show that you have the rights to your contribution.
==Income==
Writers get a signing bonus, earnings per word, and a share of the advertising income. Also if a writer works well with others, they can become a devcoin administrator and get an extra share for administrative work. Now anyone can make coin, whatever they like writing about, wherever in the world they are.
Writers get more money in devcoins for writing what they wish then they can get anywhere else. The income is ongoing, there is no worry about layoffs or contracts running out. In time, as devtome gets bigger the devcoin value should rise.
===Generation Share===
A generation share is usually around 4 million devcoins. The value at vircurex is 0.0000018 BTC/DVC at the time of this writing. So each generation share is worth around 7.2 bitcoins. This times the price of 13.3 USD/BTC at Mt.Gox gives a total of 96 USD.
===Signing Bonus===
There is a first article bonus of four generation shares for the first ten writers, three generation shares for the next ten, then two generation shares for the next ten, and finally one generation share for the last ten. The article, or articles, must have total length of at least a thousand weighted words. Four signing bonuses have been sent out, six of the four share bonuses remain.
===Earnings per Word===
Original work gets a generation share per 1,000 words. The original work can be from your website, it can not be based off another article.
Collated work, which is largely based on another open source article, is also counted, although with a weighting of currently 0.3. The collated work can not be simply a copy of another article, it must have improvements and the type of improvements must be listed in the invoice.
===Earnings per Image===
Each image adds 10 words to the weighted word count.
===Advertising Income===
The advertising net income will be converted to devcoins through an exchange. The devcoins will then be handed out to the writers in proportion to their total weighted word count.
===Contribution Etiquette===
If a writer, Alice, contributes to Bob's article, then Bob should give Alice her share of the earnings by multiplying the number of words times the devcoins in a generation share, divided by a thousand. For example, if Alice contributes 195 words, and the typical generation share is 4,000,000 devcoins, then Bob should send Alice 195 * 4,000,000 devcoins / 1,000 = 780,000 devcoins.
===Administrative Work===
If you write for at least two months and intend to continue, you can apply to be inducted. If your work has been of good quality and you work well with others, you can become a devcoin administrator, and get another generation share for administrative work.
===Invoice===
To earn coins, after an administrator checks to see that the text is original or improved for collated work, the tomecount.py script will parse the user page, then count the words in the articles and calculate the payouts. An example snippet is pasted below, condensed from the unthinkingbit user page.
==Articles==
===Collated===
*[[:Eczema]] - Source: [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ethnomedicine/Ethnomedicine_by_Illness#Eczema Ethnomedicine by Illness, Eczema] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema Wikipedia Eczema] - Improvement: Combined wikibooks with wikipedia articles
===Original===
*[[:Cancer Home Treatment]] - Source: Original
*[[:Devcoin]] - Source: [https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/blob/master/devcoin.html https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/blob/master/devcoin.html]
==Tip==
Coin Address: 17vec4jQGCzMEsTnivizHPaowE715tu2CB
Please add links to your articles in the same format on your user page. Also, if you are on the bitcoinshare list please use the same coin address, so that if a dishonest writer edits your coin address the discrepancy will be noticed.
===Payment===
The tomecount script is run every round plus one thousand blocks and the payment goes out on the next round. For example, the script is run at the tenth round plus a thousand blocks, so at block 41,000 the payment is determined based on the number of words written and the payment is sent out during the eleventh round, between the blocks 44,000 and 47,999. Then the script will be run again at block 45,000 and the payment sent out in the twelth round, and so on. Ways to see the block number are described at the devcoin block explorer page.
==Devcoin Address==
Ideally you can run devcoin and get a new address.
However, if you can not install devcoin on your system you can put a bitcoin address for your coin address, and import the bitcoin address into devcoin in the future when there will be a devcoin binary that you can then install on your system. One way of importing that key is by following the README.txt instructions for the modified version of bitcoin tools which incorporates Matt Giuca's privkeyimport. Another way is to use Jackjack's pywallet, the instructions for which are in the Pywallet section at the bottom of Jackjack's post. It may be possible to import bitcoin keys into devcoin by simply copying the wallet file into the equivalent place in the .devcoin folder, although this has not been tried.
It is impossible to send generation shares into a vircurex deposit address, because the daemon does not provide any means to link back a generated block to an devcoin address, listtransactions only shows account information for received transactions.
Because Linux is more secure than Mac and Windows, it is a good idea to keep your coins on a Linux computer. For even more safety, you can get a separate Linux computer dedicated to storing coins. Large cities often have a store selling refurbished Linux computers; if there is no Linux store close to your place you can get one by mail from a place like usanotebook.com - Laptops with Linux, for less than 200 USD.
==Article Size==
If you are writing on an eclectic or little known topic, you can write an article of whatever size you want. If you are writing about a common topic, you should write a large, comprehensive article.
==Finance==
The idea behind devtome is that the generation shares pay people to write for the wiki, the advertising revenue from the wiki purchases devcoins on an exchange which causes the value of devcoin to rise, which means more money for writers, and so on. Because advertising rates are low, it will take at least a few months for the advertising revenue to be significant, but you have to start somewhere.
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