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"Status: Open
Selected Providers: -
Budget: $30-$250 USD
Created: 10/13/2010 at 12:36 MDT
Bid Count: 0
Average Bid:
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Ends: 10/17/2010 at 12:36 MDT (1d 19h left)
Project Creator: thekohser United States [offline]
Last Login: 10/13/2010 at 14:53 MDT Employer Rating: (No Feedback Yet)
Description
I maintain an Internet page to which I wish to draw more traffic. I am
asking for an experienced, North American English-as-first-language, web
manipulator to astroturf a link to my page within the comments field of
recent news articles found on the web. I will pay per valid comment/link
left on the news article, up to a total of 30 links. Your bid should be
your price for successfully completing 30 different article comments.
My conditions:
* The news article must be published on a site with Alexa ranking between
1 and 20,000.
* The article must accept comments from readers, and allow HTML links to
other sites.
* The article must be substantially about the topic of either Wikipedia,
Jimmy Wales, or the Wikimedia Foundation. (A mere mention like "According
to Wikipedia, bananas are the world's most-consumed fruit" would not
qualify.)
* The article must have been published on or after August 1, 2010.
I reserve the right to reject any comments that the supplier publishes
that do not meet ALL FOUR of the above criteria. You will document your
work by providing me a list of URLs where comments have been successfully
published. I highly recommend an Alexa toolbar extension (such as:
http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ ) to aid you in determining if a news
or blog site qualifies as a Top 20,000 site.
Because the frequency with which eligible news stories will appear is
unknown, I don't have a problem if this project takes you several weeks
or even several months to complete. I will issue a 50% milestone payment
after the first ten (10) qualifying links are successfully posted. You
will receive the final 50% after successful completion of as many of the
remaining twenty (20) possible links you can complete, on a pro-rated
basis.
To make things easier for you, I will provide you with 30 unique text
comments that you will merely have to post with your own account on each
news domain. These will be laid out in a simple spreadsheet or text file
(your preference).
You will see the link and the comment file only after you have won the
bid and agree to non-disclosure of our project."
Fred
This is unacceptable. Please apologise to Greg.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory Kohs
To: Ral315 ; Austin Hair
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:42 PM
Subject: This is tolerated on the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list?
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-October/061603.html
So, it's okay to imply that I'm a dick, but I'm the one on moderation.
Got it.
Greg
--
Gregory Kohs
Cell: 302.463.1354
This reads like a radical anti-egalitarian manifesto by some young
Internet-based firebrand. Wikipedia is way cool! Universities are dead
institutions walking! We'll all learn off the web! Social networks
will replace campuses! You know the sort of thing:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/stand-and…
Then I got to the end and m`y jaw dropped when I saw what the author
did for a living. (Try to read the article without skipping to the
end.)
So. What do we do to distinguish experts from non-experts when we no
longer even have credentials as a marker of expertise? (e.g. there's
not a vast reserve of commercial positions for pure philosophers.)
- d.
Regarding the opinion piece by Jim Barber, mentioned yesterday by David
Gerard:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/stand-and…
I find it interesting that some 18 hours after Gerard's notification (and my
posting a comment on The Australian's page), still not a single comment has
been approved for publication. I wonder why that is? Is there some
official policy within the "pro-Free Culture" movement that mandates
suppression of critical viewpoints of the movement?
--
Gregory Kohs
Contact: 484-NEW-WIKI
Hi all,
A reminder that Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation,
will be having office hours Today in about 2 hours at 17:00 UTC
(10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT 19:00 CEST) on IRC in the #wikimedia-office
channel. As usual
the meeting will be an open format so bring your questions and comments!
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing #wikimedia-office as
the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
which you can click to accept.
I hope to see everyone on IRC!
--
James Alexander
Associate Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
While reading the FAQ of Creative Commons about the new Public Domain
Mark, I wondered what are the consequences for our projects. Will I
use PDM in future anyhow on Commons, for example?
Kind regards
Ziko
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/PDM_FAQ
--
Ziko van Dijk
Niederlande
I've been watching the conversation on this topic from the bench.
Milos, this is a highly sensitive issue, you can't tell "private
parties" to settle this privately and come back with a solution -- this
has to be settled in a public medium (if only for the consensus to be
visible). I suggest a page on Meta, e.g.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Decision_on_Moldovan_Wikipedia
Regards,
Gutza
Hi all,
I know Steven just sent out a note for Barry's Friday office hours
but this is in addition.Sorry for the late notice and for sending
them out of order.
Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation,
will be having office hours this Thursday (Tomorrow) at 17:00 UTC
(10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT 19:00 CEST) on IRC in the #wikimedia-office channel.
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing #wikimedia-office as
the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
which you can click to accept.
Please feel free to forward and translate this email to any list I may
have missed and I hope to see everyone online!
--
James Alexander
Associate Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Greetings all,
The next IRC Office Hours will be with Barry Newstead, Chief Global
Development Officer (CGDO) of the Wikimedia Foundation, on Friday
October 15th, 17:00 UTC. As usual, this chat will be informal and in an
open format. You can learn more about past Office Hours and how to
connect at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours.
See you in IRC!
--
Steven Walling
Wikimedia Foundation Fellow
(wikimediafoundation.org)