There may be skills helpful to contributing (writing, for an example skill) that people don’t know now, but which can be taught quickly enough to justify putting effort into teaching them. Finding some of these might yield benefits.
I find collaboration much easier in person, or at least with real-time communication.
There’s no particular mechanism for splitting karma between collaborators.
Working groups or otherwise close contact sometimes increase people’s motivations via peer pressure.
Also relevant is how often you talk to a group of people. When I have lots of contact, I have lots of motivation and work faster, when I don’t, I work more slowly.
Aggregating what skills potential project contributors have is useful for determining what projects are possible
What kind of projects are we talking about here?
I don’t think too too many people can collaborate on single articles, but there probably are some inefficiencies in which people know things but aren’t too good at writing, and vice versa.
It seems like other things are more scalable, but I don’t know what other things people want. Research?
In the interest of a bit more discussion:
There may be skills helpful to contributing (writing, for an example skill) that people don’t know now, but which can be taught quickly enough to justify putting effort into teaching them. Finding some of these might yield benefits.
I find collaboration much easier in person, or at least with real-time communication.
There’s no particular mechanism for splitting karma between collaborators.
Also relevant is how often you talk to a group of people. When I have lots of contact, I have lots of motivation and work faster, when I don’t, I work more slowly.
What kind of projects are we talking about here?
I don’t think too too many people can collaborate on single articles, but there probably are some inefficiencies in which people know things but aren’t too good at writing, and vice versa.
It seems like other things are more scalable, but I don’t know what other things people want. Research?
I’d write for money, and one pony picture.