If there was a financial incentive given to translators...

typhonsentra · Post by **typhonsentra** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:34 am

Would that help speed up the process at all? Like say, if someone (Like) was willing to donate money through Paypal? I appreciate all the hard work everyone is putting into it, but I'm really anxious to see what happens next in the various books in the collection that aren't completed and I'm running out of material to looks at.

And if anyone was interested in this deal, how much "Incentive" would be required?

Guest lol · Post by **Guest lol** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:54 am

Yeah a incentive would be a excellent idea! It'd attract more translators too. Unfortunately I'm too young for a bank account or a pay pall account

But unless you can find enough people willing to pay, you wont be able to collect a lot of cash. Take this for example: 1 in every.. say 500 will pay. There are.. I don't know, say 10000 readers? Each one of those 1 people pay 5$ each, thats only 100$.

But still, putting up a paypall link on the main page would be nice! Doesn't hurt to try atleast.

jinalbert · Post by **jinalbert** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:23 pm

Given the quality, I thought they are doing at a decent pace.

Money might work in the short run, but I doubt it's going to work over all. Ten to fifteen dollars a month (or less) is not exactly a big offer to woo translators. Beside, I would hate to see poorly translated story from the people who barely understand Japanese.

Translating the story well is not an easy task. It involved not just translating, but re-writing to make sense of the story(grammar, style, format, flow, etc.). Of course, this is an additional to school and/or working and/or life and/or hobbies.

Anyway, I think it's better to do other things for translator if you really want to encourage them.

typhonsentra · Post by **typhonsentra** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:38 am

Such as what? By the way, I was thinking more along the lines of $100, not $15.

onizuka-gto · Post by **onizuka-gto** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:20 pm

I'm not sure about it, it'll become more of a chore, and less of a hobby.

And when a hobby starts feeling like work...welll time to find a real hobby.

besides how would this work? every time they publish a translationthey get paid?

That still doesn't put any incentive to translate faster, or if you pay a set amount over a period, its not a hobbie anymore...

Everyone likes money, but sometimes.....it's a better place without it....

typhonsentra · Post by **typhonsentra** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:21 pm

I was thinking of giving it to you since you're the project leader, and allowing you to do what you please with it, but I understand if you don't want this project to involve any compensation. Sorry for the trouble.

Guest lol · Post by **Guest lol** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:13 pm

Actually the project leader is thelastgaurdian. Oni is only the project editor supervisor, as well at the main site and forum admin.

We should use paypall donations and get a .com for baka tsuki! Why? even though wiki is cool and all, because we CAN!

onizuka-gto · Post by **onizuka-gto** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:12 pm

lol.

The compensation we get from this, is the knowledge that everyone here enjoys the work that we bring, and that in some sadistic way you are all suffering when we take so long, yet so grateful when it does come out. :p

As long as you keep posting those half happy/half-suffering post, it's worth it's weight in gold to our ears.

Haiyami · Post by **Haiyami** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:59 pm

money plus translating might lead to law suits.

typhonsentra · Post by **typhonsentra** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:38 pm

Haiyami wrote:money plus translating might lead to law suits.

I was thinking the same thing, that's why I wanted to do it under the table.

jinalbert · Post by **jinalbert** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:39 pm

What table?

The money trail is everywhere when you are on the net