dear list colleagues,
preparing a slot on paid editing in the GLAM-field on the Wikimaniahttp://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 peakshttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Die_Grenzen_der_Bezahlung 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-edi..." 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
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Another inline comment.
2013/2/20 Barbara Fischer barbara.fischer@wikimedia.de:
How to make transparent that this edit was motivated by still other interests than the noble one of free knowledge.
I found this rather offensive for GLAM institutions, since most of GLAM institutions have the spread of knowledge amongst their missions. Maybe we can discuss if they fit to strategy or not, but if someone inside an institution that has that kind of mission is being paid for spreading that knowledge, we cannot assume that they are only doing it because they are being paid. Probably they are more aware about the importance of doing that job that other editors, who knows. Also you cannot assume the contrary, that all editors in Wikipedia do it because they are interested on free knowledge. You cannot assert something like this without running at least a short investigation to know why people edits Wikipedia.
My two cents.