[Wikimedia-l] "Adopt a page"

[Mark]

There's a little of that which goes on currently (I mean above-board, 
not counting anything that may happen unofficially). The most common 
case is that a cultural organization, such as a museum, provides funds 
for a "Wikipedian in residence" who is brought in to do a mixture of 
training other people, and paying special attention to articles in a 
particular area of interest.

I imagine this avoids trouble in most cases mainly because the goals are 
aligned: if we believe the cultural organization is, like us, only 
aiming at high-quality, accurate, NPOV coverage of their subject area, 
rather than any kind of self-aggrandizement or POV-pushing, then we have 
much in common.

-Mark


On 3/30/13 1:55 AM, Mono wrote:
> Yes, but it might be nice if we could let people pay trusted editors to
> improve articles (without a COI and with a NPOV) that normally wouldn't get
> attention.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Deryck Chan <deryckchan at wikimedia.hk>wrote:
>
>> Because we've decided that [[WP:Ownership of articles]] is wrong, and
>> wronger if there's financial sponsorship involved.
>>
>> On 29 March 2013 22:36, Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've just seen an OTRS ticket asking why isn't Wikipedia giving its
>>> pages for "adoption" (like when you adopt a page and your name ends up
>>> on its cage or something like that). I've moved the ticket to the
>>> donations queue, but I was wondering if this has ever been
>>> discussed/considered before.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>     Strainu
>>>
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