[WikiEN-l] Positives to publicity

[Emily Monroe]

> The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press  
> last week, a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be  
> recruiting 20,000 "unpaid expert editors" as staff to check the  
> articles....

Holy cow. Is Jimbo aware of this?

Emily
On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:04 AM, FT2 wrote:

> The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press  
> last week,
> a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be recruiting 20,000
> "unpaid expert editors" as staff to check the articles....
>
> Google:
>
> http://news.google.com/news/search?um=1&hl=en&q=wikipedia+%22expert+editors%22
>
> Examples:
>
> http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25408&Itemid=62
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208941/Free-edit-Wikipedia-appoints-volunteer-editors-vet-changes-articles-living-people.html
>
>
>
> FT2
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean at me.com>  
> wrote:
>
>>> They seem to think that they are applying for "staff".
>>
>> Maybe we need to make it more obvious that there's no "staff" at
>> Wikipedia, at least for the time being.
>>
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