Hi David,
It would be even nicer if we have more editors editing voluntarily instead of driving them away.
In the present scenario a University of Minnesota report by Aaron Halfaker says "The declining number of editors is not due to the site's inability to keep longtime editors contributing. Instead it can't keep new editors from sticking around, due to an abrasive collective of editors and a system that is crushingly bureaucratic." [1]
English Wikipedia's biggest problem today is its established syndicates of 90% white male "content creators" and their self-protecting policies. A large number of these persons are paid editors / PR -SEO "consultants" who have worked themselves up to positions of administrators, Arbs, and WMF Trustees and blatantly misused their positions and lied about their background / Conflicts of Interest.
I suggest its high time now for the WMF to directly take legal responsibility for the actions and policies of their (mostly) anonymous users and what is "hosted" on WMF servers.
I suggest the WMF should immediately institute a regime of verified identities for its users and administrators across all its projects, and purge all rogue editors (along with their self serving so-called""community" policies) who are damaging the credibility of its projects, including through paid editing.
David
[1] http://www.businessinsider.in/Wikipedia-Could-Degenerate-If-It-Cant-Fix-One-...
On 2/29/16, David Cuenca Tudela dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
James, I think it is very nice to put measures against paid editing, but it would be nicer to put measures to get editors more free time to edit voluntarily... There are not that many suggestions on how to do it, so it could be that it cannot be done.
Cheers, Micru
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:14 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
With respect to paid promotional editing, I have done a bit work trying to address it. For example I reached out to Upworks the company behind Elance and Fiverr and they are interested in working together on this. Have been a little distracted and not sure if there is sufficient community or foundation support to move forwards.
With respect to using AI to detect paid editing, I spoke with Aaron Halfaker about the possibility in Nov 2015. What he needed was datasets of confirmed paid promotional editors. I have sent him some details. If others have details that would likely be useful. Things are in the very very early stages from what I understand.
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