I’m talking about the sockfarms of literally hundreds of users who are being paid to write articles - among whom are sadly admins and New Page Reviewers (according to their claims). I thought that would have been clear.
KudpUng
On 3Aug, 2017, at 00:48, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Hey Kudpong,
Those people are still volunteers from the perspective of Wikipedia - they are not being paid by the Wikimedia Foundation. If true, it is a worrying development, but perhaps not a reason for Victor to change his videos.
Best, Lodewijk
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 7:45 PM, cs <cs@edubkk.org mailto:cs@edubkk.org> wrote: ‘All of the articles on Wikipedia are written by volunteers’
You’ll need to correct that for your next video - if you knew the extent of paid editing, blackmail, and extortion we are discovering and trying to combat you’d fall off your chair or drop your camera.
Kudpung
On 3Aug, 2017, at 00:33, Victor Grigas <vgrigas@wikimedia.org mailto:vgrigas@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello Wikimedians!
My name is Victor Grigas, I’m a storyteller and video producer https://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaFoundation/videos at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that supports Wikipedia. Many of you may already know me or my work. I'll be in Montreal at Wikimania from Thursday August 10th through Sunday August 13th and wanted to ask that if you know someone or are someone who has an inspiring story to share about how you use Wikimedia projects, then we'd like to hear it!
If you are interested, please answer a few questions on this private Google form or share it with someone you know who will be attending Wikimania:
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We publish profiles of Wikimedians here regularly: https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/communications/profiles/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/communications/profiles/
Then, in Montreal I can take your portrait photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)#A_few_Wikipedians for free to publish on Wikimedia Commons. I’ll be there from Thursday August 10th through Sunday August 13th. I’ll only need a few minutes of your time to take your photo and we can co-ordinate by email. Once I'm there, I'll have a better idea of where I'll be for the best lighting setup.
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