[Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age

Thu Nov 18 22:37:25 UTC 2010

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> On 18 November 2010 21:28, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Keegan Peterzell
>>> <keegan.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> It looks to me like they just get paid to get volunteers to work.
>>>> Â Nice
>>>> scheme. Â So it's not technically paid editing :)
>>
>>> That sounds similar to the role of a few WMF staff...
>>
>>
>> Someone on another list discussing this suggested the WMF marketing
>> monitoring the article about you as a service ...

Which list is this?

> So we would charge people to monitor the article about them? Would we do
> that for firms too? There would could be negligence liability if we miss
> something.

'monitoring' =/= 'action'

It would be easy to build an RSS feed for a set of articles and 'give'
that to any fool willing to pay for it.

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John Vandenberg