[Wikimedia-l] "Adopt a page"

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sat Mar 30 22:36:44 UTC 2013


On Mar 30, 2013 10:28 PM, "Mark" <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>
> 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 believe Wikipedians in Residence generally avoid actually editing
articles where they have a conflict of interest. They just provide support
to others, that aren't conflicted, to edit them.


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