On 14 February 2013 15:15, Nathan
<nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That job ad is so awesome I had to save it for
posterity. Work as a
programmer slash executive assistant, for free! Be available 24 hours a
day
at a moments notice! Weekends off? Forget it! Mediocre candidates need
not
apply! Work for the *gasp* co-founder of Wikipedia! Solid, solid gold.
I think you're being unduly harsh here. His track record speaks for
itself.
- d.
He's not wrong; if it is possible to effectively mobilize the world's
best experts in a major widely supported crowd sourcing project it could
be awesome. Any Wikipedia editor knows from experience that from time to
time you end up arguing with idiots and losing the argument by consensus.
Fred