User blog comment:Tedgill/Making Ads Better: How We're Going to Do It/@comment-5610178-20170121170911/@comment-26402117-20170122115628

I would slowly transition your frame of mind to "it would be a nice bonus to get paid, but it's not happening". It will cause you pain otherwise.


 * Everything around the site is volunteer-run, including global usergroups.
 * No wiki editor is obliged as such, or required to hit a quota. (Doing otherwise will bring about major quality issues and conflict.)
 * Payscale? Would it bring issues if you value everyone the same? If not, how do you differentiate? Editcount, no. Bytecount, no.
 * What happens if you get a chunk of Fandom's ad revenue and split it across so many people? Would that have less benefit to us than more money invested into development and support?
 * What of the users who are unable to get a share (e:g: too young)?

To put it very simply, what keeps editors here is really an interest in the collaborative editing, or web coding or their own enthusiasms.