I'm very new to this concept of paid editing. But from what I understood
paid editing is allowed, as long as the editors disclose who they are paid
by on their talk page or in edit summaries. I understood this to be
roughly the idea of the Wikipedian in Residence title. I didn't look this
up on purpose, because I wanted to point out this might be a common
existing understanding. Am I mistaken? What is the policy?
As I was thinking about this, if it's true, I figured the hardest part for
the community would be finding out which edit was sponsored and which was
not. If the disclosure was just on the user's page, someone looking at
edit histories would have to click through a lot to find possible
affiliations. I'd say we could easily create an "audit" mode to the edit
history that would decorate each revision based on any affiliation
templates from the user pages.
But, there I go inventing a feature for a problem I don't even know exists
: ) I'll just go look it up now.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 24 February 2016 at 21:16, Risker
<risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, Sarah, after all of these years I
didn't think you'd come up with
anything that would surprise me. I was wrong, And I'll say that if I was
going to favour paying anyone, it would be paying qualified translators
to
support smaller projects, and Wikisourcers, and
people who may have the
interest and ability to edit but instead have to work 60 and 70 hour
weeks
on susbsistence wages simply to feed their
children. I would have an
extremely difficult time justifying paying people in large, well-to-do
countries to edit Wikipedia. I also strongly suspect it would kill the
donation stream almost entirely once it became known that Wikipedia was
no
longer written by volunteers, but instead was
written by paid editors.
(Sorry for the inadvertent early send)
Risker
24 February 2016 at 21:09, SarahSV
<sarahsv.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:20 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > And here I thought you were going to suggest giving each editor a pool
> > of $$ to assign to their favorite skunkworks projects.
> >
> > If we divide the current WMF budget ($58M) by the current number of
> > monthly active editors (71K), then take 60% off the top for keeping
> > the lights on, infrastructure, etc. -- this is a fairly typical
> > overhead percentage for grants at universities -- we're still left
> > with $325/editor.
> >
> > As of January 2016, the English WP had 3,492 editors that the
> Foundation
> calls "very active," but that's only 100 edits a month. [1] The core
> workforce is considerably smaller, and they're the ones who keep the
place
> running by tidying and writing/rewriting
articles, creating and
> maintaining
> various processes and policies, creating templates, and so on.
>
> The Foundation could pay that number of workers, especially if it found
> imaginative ways to do it.
>
> For example, it could set up a department that accepts contracts from
> individuals and groups who want certain articles to be written or
> rewritten. Instead of paying a PR company, those people would pay the
> Foundation. The Foundation would maintain a list of excellent editors
and
> would offer the contract to the most
appropriate, taking a percentage of
> the fee for itself.
>
> The brief would specify that any article produced must adhere to the
core
> content policies, so there would be no
whitewashing, but there would be
an
> effort to be fair. As things stand, unpaid
editors have to clean up PR
> efforts anyway, so they might as well get paid to produce something
decent
> from the start. It might only take a few
ethical companies to sign up
for
the thing
to take off.
Sarah
[1]
https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm
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