But what if there were a campaign, of sorts, to donate exactly 1 BTC (valued up to $10 USD) to every one of the currently one million plus unpaid editors who desire Bitcoin? How disruptive would that be?
That would be pretty disruptive to Bitcoin, that's for sure... though perhaps in a positive way (price going up). It would also be a disruption I think Wikipedia would find unwelcome.
Wikipedia would frown on it for the same reason they are against advertising. It's already against the rules to accept paid engagements for writing or editing Wikipedia. I think Wikipedia would consider it non-kosher to even have editors put bitcoin addresses on their user pages. That's because there's a reasonable fear that someone who suddenly started editing with a bias might see anonymous donations for doing so. Every corporation would, instead of editing their own wikipedia article, would start donating anonymously to everyone who made edits in their favor in order to encourage more of it. That would be real damage to Wikipedia, not worth a few extra donations.
A very informative post, casascius. Makes it pretty damn hard for me to punch holes in your logic, so I won't even attempt to try such. Thank you kindly for supplying this relative information to the community.
~Bruno~
