On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:52 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/2 Chris Down neuro.wikipedia@googlemail.com:
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.
o_0
If we were doing such a thing:
- we wouldn't be paying anyone
- we'd be shouting it from the rooftops.
Nice idea, actually. Anyone feel they could put together a serious programme to recruit academics to such a cause?
(changed subject as this is an interesting discussion)
I was thinking about this as well recently and yes, Thomas, I agree, this is something that could coordinated or at least supported by chapters, many of which have good connections to local universities.
Michael