I personally am more concerned about paid conflict of interest editing and
much less concerned about paid non conflict of interest work. This appears
on superficial overview to be the latter. Will be interested to see how
this experiment turns out.
James
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 9:47 AM Mrb Rafi <mrbrafi1971(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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/
<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/
<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.
[1]
https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~01371a50692d0540d0
Best regards,
Rafi
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