[Foundation-l] getting hired to work on Wikipedia? Make that a "website processing specialist"

[Chad]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:14 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/9/30 Alison Wheeler <wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com>:
>
> > In terms of trademark abuse it would be interesting (but ultimately
> > pointless) to find out. There is 'automated processing' going on as they
> > convert the URL into part of the text, but given that the user is -
> > effectively - entering that name (or whatever other) then they could try
> > to argue that it wasn't them that chose to use 'wikipedia' but the user,
> > with them just re-formatting whatever the user had written.
>
>
> Semi-automatic, possibly like the one spoken of in this blog post:
>
>
> http://www.promotionalcodes.org.uk/750/wtf-coupon-code-for-wikipedia-i-dont-think-so/
>
>
> - d.
>
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Thank you David, I'm still laughing at that.

-Chad

PS, I blogged it too:
http://anyonecanedit.org/blog/2008/10/wikipedia-just-got-cheaper-to-use/