dear list colleagues,
preparing a slot on paid editing in the GLAM-field on the
Wikimania<http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page>
2013, we are looking for debate willing GLAM activists to join us.
These days the discussion on paid editing has climbed new
peaks<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Die_Grenzen_der_Bezahlung&g…
among
the German speaking community. Paid editing is probably a topic in your
chapter and especially it is for GLAM activists, isn't it? Let us share our
stories we had with paid editing in the GLAM-field. I assume, we all want
to motivate GLAM staff to contribute to Wikimedia projects not only by
content but by edits too. Naturally they will do it during their working
hours. It is their job they do. Well, many consider paid editing for the
GLAM-cause as acceptable. But we think, it needs a transparent and evident
checklist easy to handle for every GLAM author. Authors need to feel safe
that their effort will not be banned only because the were paid for
editing. And we need to be sure what we want. The edit of a GLAM author is
only a good and valuable edit if it fulfills certain standards. We all
agree. But these standards need to be defined. Let's discuss advocacy
versus the need to be well represented in the Wikipedia. How to mediate the
interests of volunteer authors and paid ones. How to make transparent that
this edit was motivated by still other interests than the noble one of free
knowledge These are some of the thoughts, Dirk Franke and I would like to
debate with You in all its pros and contras at the Wikimania.
Please join our preparation group "GLAMourous edits for a few dollars
more". For more information in English see
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/23/german-community-project-about-paid-ed…
and feel free to share your thoughts.
About us:
Dirk Franke runs Community Project about the future of paid editing on the
German Wikipedia. For one year he is a kind of a fellow of the German
Wikipedia community and the German Wikimedia chapter.
Barbara Fischer works as curator for cultural partnerships for Wikimedia
Deutschland.
thanks
Barbara Fischer
Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.