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

[Alison Wheeler]

On Mon, September 29, 2008 22:12, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> 2008/9/29 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>:
>>> http://consumerreportingusa.org/wikipedia.htm
>>> Who knew that "Wikipedia was hiring website processing specialists"?
>>> Not me, that's for sure! Easy money, here we come!
>>
>> It's nonsense.
>
> I know that :) The implication I read into it was that they were
> hiring people to write or post Wikipedia articles, and *that* would be
> interesting, if true. I may be overreaching, though, and it's just a
> form letter like Pharos says.

A quick check (try http://consumerreportingusa.org/ by itself) shows that
the site is using the pagename requested *eg. 'wikipedia.htm') to generate
which company it wants punters to think is recruiting.

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.

Alison