[Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age

[Mono mium]

I've signed up, for the heck of it - I wonder how big of a scam it is.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:01 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:53 AM, masti <mastigm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/18/2010 12:30 PM, wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
> >> Any one signed up yet?
> >> http://www.ereleases.com/pr/visibility-wikipedia-easier-43135
> >>
> > I'm not able to find it now but there was an article form marketing/PR
> > professionals to fellow marketeers describing why not to do exactly this
> > what is offered here.
> >
> > The result of such editing is usually not worth ruining the reputation
> > if the articles are marked as spam.
> >
> > What they offer is to write them in a way it will not be easily
> > dicovered. And that is braking our rules.
>
> Where do they say that?
>
> Their code of ethics is much like the OTRS practises.
>
> http://wikipediaexperts.com/codeofethics.html
>
> Of course our OTRS practises are .. in practise by openly disclosed
> OTRS volunteers, and we have no idea how well wikipediaexperts works
> in practise or who they are in our wikis, editing our articles.
>
> I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt, but someone
> (WMF?) should ask them to provide a sample of their work for review.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
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