[Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age

[Fred Bauder]

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
> wrote:
>>> On 18 November 2010 21:28, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Keegan Peterzell
>>>> <keegan.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> It looks to me like they just get paid to get volunteers to work.
>>>>> Â Nice
>>>>> scheme. Â So it's not technically paid editing :)
>>>
>>>> That sounds similar to the role of a few WMF staff...
>>>
>>>
>>> Someone on another list discussing this suggested the WMF marketing
>>> monitoring the article about you as a service ...
>
> Which list is this?
>
>> So we would charge people to monitor the article about them? Would we
>> do
>> that for firms too? There would could be negligence liability if we
>> miss
>> something.
>
> 'monitoring' =/= 'action'
>
> It would be easy to build an RSS feed for a set of articles and 'give'
> that to any fool willing to pay for it.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>

If it is that easy, maybe it should be a feature available as a courtesy
to anyone or any organization that has an article about them.

Fred Bauder