Someone asked me to explain why people would do this. Let me explain my hypothesis (since it's yet to be built and proven)
On WeWrite, a Pledge bar floats atop each page, allowing readers to send a recurring amount of money to the author of the page. (still under construction, Payments isn't set up yet)
On WeWrite, each page will have Version history accessible in the Page metadata so you'll be able to see pages grow and change over time.
If I donate to a page on a recurring basis, I'm basically saying to the author "I hope you keep pushing this idea, I like it"
Perhaps it becomes more detailed, more well-thought out over time.
Perhaps it's a beautiful story which is transformed into a screenplay. Then all the funds can be used to pay a film company to make the screenplay into a wonderful movie.
We could use Compare pages to compare versions between when you began donating and now, so you could feel like you can take credit for that growth.
"Wikis are usually open source content" ... what does this mean? Words are "open source" in a sense. Books are paid for. Substacks are paid for. Wikis are just text content.
If you mean that wikis are collaborative, yes. But the Owner of the collaborative page gets the funds. The owner can also set up RevShare to other users.
Disagree with that owner getting the money? Write your own version of the page to compete. This will show up in the Same title section of Page discovery and now you can duke it out and see who makes more money.
The WeWrite origin story involves wikis of communities which have a hard time monetizing. They're all very excited for this project and are excited to hopefully begin making lots of money.
If OnlyFans girls can monetize ... that ... then why can't we monetize Logos and Common Sense and reason?
This page goes into the user research pile: Collecting feedback from users