Recently the German community of the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia started a discussion about implementing a social payment service like Kachingle. Some people argue whether it should be placed on articles or on user sites and if the revenue should flow to authors or to the Wikimedia foundation. In a running survey Wikipedia contributors are voting on how this is going to proceed.

We think social payments and a crowdsourced knowledge platforms like Wikipedia are a perfect match! Kachingle’s activity-based model of calculating payouts ensures a fair share of revenue. Further this system compliments Wikipedia’s ongoing fundraising activities—just as our service co-exists nicely with advertising it would do the same with donations.

The idea of a global system like Wikimedia adopting a social payment system like Kachingle is very exciting and shows that our vision and implementation are going down the right road!