On 20/04/07, Florence Devouard wmf-l@anthere.org wrote:
Debbie Garside wrote:
In order to assist with fundraising I need to have a little more background. How do funding drives like http://www.linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/wikipedia/ fit into the WikiMedia Foundation funding drives, if at all?
One of our advisory board member, in the course of a discussion over fundraising, pointed out to that page. Have you ever heard of that fundrive ? Have you ever heard of linguistlist ? Have you ever heard of linguists being paid to edit wikipedia ???
Technically, I think the linguist was being paid to facilitate the editing of Wikipedia.
I'm surprised you hadn't heard - I know it's been discussed (positively) on this mailing list before. It's pretty much exactly what we could want from paid editing.