On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Emily Monroebluecaliocean@me.com 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....
Holy cow. Is Jimbo aware of this?
Don't you mean "is the Wikimedia Foundation aware of this?"
Carcharoth
PS. I pointed out in an earlier thread that this mis-reporting would lead to people thinking new editors are being sought especially for this. It's point 4 in my e-mail of 26 August in the thread titled "A sudden thought on the media coverage of flagged revisions". Could someone post to the foundation-l list and get some co-ordination going if are going to see a large influx of new editors to the WMF's largest project asking "how can we help?"