On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Emily Monroe<bluecaliocean(a)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?"