I realise, and beg of people not to actually believe I buy into this, but
when someone makes an accusation that someone is claiming to be a WMF
employee and claims that there is a conspiracy, I tend to bring it up. I beg
of people to not take me for an idiot.
- Chris
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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Chris Down wrote:
Ipatrol has just came on IRC claiming that he has
been told that
the WMF is hiring people to "validate" articles, and that the
foundation is doing it in secret by using thousands of IPs and
academics. He claims that the WMF has contracted colleges all
across the US have been recruiting academics to "validate"
articles, and states that admins are involved in this 'cabal', or
whatever.
IRC is hardly a credible medium, and individuals frequently show up on
various channels and make up things for whatever reason. "Trolling"
is but one name for it. I suggest if it happens again, you look for
one of the channel contacts and get more information. For example, a
list of people with access to the #wikimedia channel can be found by
typing:
/msg ChanServ access #wikimedia list
Admittedly, if you're a conspiracy theorist, it's reasonable to assume
that whoever responds is part of the conspiracy...
Cary
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