Hello all!
I became confused watching this [1] job post on Upwork with the title "Create 20 pages in the Bulgarian Wikipedia". The client offered 30 USD for this task.
The job post says:
This is a small experimental project. The goal is to check if people on
Upwork.com can help grow the Bulgarian Wikipedia in a quality way. I
also wish to *not* cannibalize edits that would have happened anyway.
The created content will be in the public domain. It's a gift to all
Bulgarians. We follow all the values, guidelines and rules valid on the
Bulgarian WIkipedia: https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Уикипедия:Поведение
. This includes following the specific wiki syntax and the usual
expectations of all pages, especially good sources and categorization of
the page. Some experience editing Wikipedia is desired, but not
required. Since these are supposed to be net new edits, I will prefer
people who have fewer than 100 Wikipedia edits so far.
Due to this social benefit, the proposed price is far below market price. As Bulgarians say, the payment is symbolic.
For this experiment, I've selected 20 articles that exist in the English
Wikipedia, but don't yet exist in the Bulgarian Wikipedia. That gives
you the option to use Wikipedia's translation tool, which may make your
work much faster and more pleasant: Please note that the translation
tool has some specifics that take time to get used to, e.g., adding
references, representing other alphabets -- I can help with such issues.
The list of proposed articles is here: https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Потребител:Cryout/Чрез_ЪпУърк
I hope you will enjoy this variety of content. Still, the list is
negotiable and we can swap articles in and out per your preference.
Is it going in the right way? I'm a Lil' bit confused.
Besides this, you'll get tons of paid editing job posts on Upwork, freelancer and other freelance networks. At first, I used to report these posts but there are so many of them that it's not possible for me to find all of them and report them.
Best regards,
Rafi