[Wikimedia-l] CNET News: "Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia"

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 11:51:19 UTC 2012


On 19 September 2012 12:08, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 September 2012 10:46, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 19 September 2012 10:24, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> He gets to decide which town goes forward,
>>> and whichever town goes forward pays him a consultancy fee.

>> This, OTOH, is spurious made-up bullshit.

> No, it's pretty accurate. Roger made the decision to work with
> Gibraltar and Gibraltar are paying him. Do you really think there is
> no connection between those two facts? Of course he's working with
> them because they are paying him - that's the point of paid work.


"He gets to decide which town goes forward" is completely made-up, as
has been noted.

(How did you manage to quote that and then ignore it?)


- d.



More information about the Wikimedia-l mailing list