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=2...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208941/Free-edit-Wikipedia-appoints...
FT2
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Emily Monroe bluecaliocean@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.