[WikiEN-l] Question about fundraising and linguists on wikipedia

[Andrew Gray]

On 20/04/07, Florence Devouard <wmf-l at anthere.org> wrote:
> Debbie Garside wrote:
> > In order to assist with fundraising I need to have a little more background.
> > How do funding drives like
> > http://www.linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/wikipedia/ fit into the
> > WikiMedia Foundation funding drives, if at all?
>
> One of our advisory board member, in the course of a discussion over
> fundraising, pointed out to that page.
> Have you ever heard of that fundrive ?
> Have you ever heard of linguistlist ?
> Have you ever heard of linguists being paid to edit wikipedia ???

Technically, I think the linguist was being paid to facilitate the
editing of Wikipedia.

I'm surprised you hadn't heard - I know it's been discussed
(positively) on this mailing list before. It's pretty much exactly
what we could want from paid editing.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk