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…
Examples:
http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208941/Free-edit-Wikipedia-appoint…
FT2
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean(a)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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