6 Month Funding of the Paraverse Content Creators
Hello everyone!
Bounty 12 has evolved over the past few years into an impressive content generation machine that supports early-stage creators on their journey to becoming confident and independent stewards of the story of Polkadot and Kusama by incentivizing them with KSM rewards and sub-bounties. Now we're taking the next step forward. In an effort to decentralize even more, Directors of specific units will now completely and independently head their units while utilizing WagMedia's tools to further the growth of the creators incubating under their tutelage.
This proposal aims to continue the funding of the Paraverse Content Creators (previously General Unit in WagMedia) which supports creators who report on and create original content to help promote Polkadot and Kusama, especially content focused on parachains, the relay chains that secure them, governance, and general principles collectively held by the community. For greater than a year, creators within this group have generated content on the relay chains and nearly every parachain in the ecosystem. This content has been produced in many different formats including interviews with founders, long-form articles, Twitter threads, YouTube and TikTok videos, and more.
The tools and methods we use to evaluate and reward content have improved as well and you can learn all about the proposal here.
You can see the community discussion of the proposal over the past week with response to comments here.
We appreciate your support and look forward to spreading the story of Polkadot and Kusama even further!
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I will post a pertinent response to a question from Anaelle here for better visibility. This is in response to the question about how WagMedia is restructuring in the wake of OpenGov.
Bounty 12 was opened about 8-9 months ago to incentivize the creation of quality educational content related to Polkadot and Kusama on the back of a network that is now considered software. Parity and the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems have never been about pump and dump or heavy shill marketing and many prominent members of the community felt that this marketing and educational content could be produced in a Web3 fashion. Community based, grass roots, user-perspective marketing.
The architecture that arose in result of Bounty 12 was relatively straightforward. Wagmedia was the brand - a content production house that incentivizes the best and brightest content creators to come to Polkadot and Kusama to create educational content. Directors have specific focuses. One on the general parachains and the relay chains that secure them, one on NFTs/metaverse, one on DeFi, one on news finding, etc. Bounty 12 also laid the groundwork to improve the functions within WagMedia such as a Marketing arm that these content creators could tap in to. A writer's room where content creators can drop in their articles, threads and scripts to be vetted by experienced professionals and their fellow creators alike. A tiered rewards system to more objectively incentivize quality content
As OpenGov arose, there came an opportunity to appeal to the token holders more directly and decentralize WagMedia into the naturally forming groups of creators so that the voices could be more independent, lightweight, flexible and decentralized. WagMedia is now a tool that these groups can use to further their content's reach, improve their skills, and hone their brand, rather than the main driver behind it all.
Our group hopes to use the reward distribution bot and tiered system, the marketing arm, the writer's room, etc. within WagMedia to help foster current and future creators.
I have voted Aye with 4x conviction on this simply because WagMedia have been nothing but awesome ! Not only was it thanks to them that I could kick start my Polkadot Romania channel to promote to other communities in their native language and help them learn about Polkadot's ecosystem (content that doesn't exist elsewhere in romanian) but because of their language unit system, they really provided a platform where people could work in their native language from the comfort of their own home and ultimately get paid for that as if they were contractors. Be it article translations or videos. Aside from that they also have their main general units in english where people can contribute through tweets & videos and get tipped and help spread the word about the Polkadot ecosystem. I think many people using their platform wouldn't have gotten to where they've gotten without WagMedia so I just want to say a big THANK YOU !! Keep up the good work.