Scenario:
Wikipedia is an ad supported site,
where authors were paid a % of total ad revenue,<p>depending on how popular the page they authored was.<p>Do you think this would promote higher quality content ?
Probably not.<p>In a recent thread[1], the consensus seemed to be that introducing monetary rewards for community participation was a bad idea, that would largely cause people to game the system. I should think that your idea would encounter similar obstacles.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2986681" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2986681</a>
In my spare time I tinker with content-recreation using wikipedia dumps.<p>Imagine software that could find and generate content as good or better than the quality on Wikipedia.<p>I guess skys the limit on how much you could make in ad revenue.