On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Emily Monroe<bluecalioc...@me.com> 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.... > > Holy cow. Is Jimbo aware of this?
Don't you mean "is the Wikimedia Foundation aware of this?" Carcharoth PS. I pointed out in an earlier thread that this mis-reporting would lead to people thinking new editors are being sought especially for this. It's point 4 in my e-mail of 26 August in the thread titled "A sudden thought on the media coverage of flagged revisions". Could someone post to the foundation-l list and get some co-ordination going if are going to see a large influx of new editors to the WMF's largest project asking "how can we help?" _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
