> The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press > last week, a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be > recruiting 20,000 "unpaid expert editors" as staff to check the > articles....
Holy cow. Is Jimbo aware of this? Emily On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:04 AM, FT2 wrote: > The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press > last week, > a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be recruiting 20,000 > "unpaid expert editors" as staff to check the articles.... > > Google: > > http://news.google.com/news/search?um=1&hl=en&q=wikipedia+%22expert+editors%22 > > Examples: > > http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25408&Itemid=62 > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208941/Free-edit-Wikipedia-appoints-volunteer-editors-vet-changes-articles-living-people.html > > > > FT2 > > > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Emily Monroe <bluecalioc...@me.com> > wrote: > >>> They seem to think that they are applying for "staff". >> >> Maybe we need to make it more obvious that there's no "staff" at >> Wikipedia, at least for the time being. >> > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l