Well then, why aren't you listening?
We've been begging WMF for years to come up with a solution for paid editing. If you actually put something in the ToU against it, we can get paid edit requests removed from sites like Upwork, since they will not allow requests that violate another site's terms of service. But we've been completely unable to get WMF to do something unequivocal like that, so we get left to deal with the spam and crapvertising. Wikipedia admins get to deal with the fallout.
In the meantime, we get a WMF "working group" wanting to not only allow paid editing, but have WMF do the paying. That is the direct, exact opposite of what we've been asking for! No paid editing, and certainly no paid editing from WMF!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_...
Why on Earth are we getting this garbage from WMF "working groups"? Do they know nothing at all about how the projects work, or do they not care and are trying to override them?
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 4:07 PM Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 6:00 PM Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Then, why'd we hear something so dismissive as this?
My intent was not dismissive, but factual (I basically made a point that a majority of our communities is not interested in administration, organization, structures, etc., so as to address an estimation error in the discussion).
5-10 thousand people are still a large and definitely worth listening to group.
best,
dj