Of course they do. They just don't get paid
money. They get paid in
attention, which is becoming a far more valuable resource than money as the economy transitions to an
AttentionEconomy.
Well, they might indirectly be paid money. I personally can think of at least four books (my own two, Martin Fowler's
RefactoringBook, and the
AntiPatternsBook) that took at least some part of their content from discussions on Wiki...
Wiki is a good place to sound out ideas before committing them to print since you know that if they turn out to be stupid you can always delete any record of their having ever existed ...
--
KyleBrown
If I recall correctly,
ExtremeProgrammingInstalled was hashed out on the
WikiWeb before seeing print. --
IainLowe
Don't forget
TheWikiWay! --
AnonymousDonor
I could easily imagine an
IntranetWiki living inside a company where people do indeed get paid to work and the Wiki is one of their working tools. --
EdwardVielmetti
Me too. My company is going to be one of them. -- sg
My company -- the University of Sydney -- is already one of them. --
JasonGrossman
For further discussion along this line see ProjectWiki and TeamWiki. Several companies use Wiki-like systems as repositories of lore that would otherwise be retained only via oral tradition, or as collaborative environments for project development.
Ecommerce aware
WikiZens might like a wikified version of
IdeaExchange. --
FridemarPache
Or not. Certainly, intelligent and knowledgeable wikizens will never, ever expect an intellectual endeavour to flourish when it is restricted at ever turn by money. And then there's the fact that micropayments will never, ever work.
Too bad they don't get paid, because some need to be fired :-)
Can't agree more.