Chris Down wrote: > Ipatrol has just came on IRC claiming that he has been told that the WMF is > hiring people to "validate" articles, and that the foundation is doing it in > secret by using thousands of IPs and academics. He claims that the WMF has > contracted colleges all across the US have been recruiting academics to > "validate" articles, and states that admins are involved in this 'cabal', or > whatever. > > [[Afghan Hound]] is going to be rewritten soon by someone being paid > $1000/month from the foundation, according to his 'source'. His source is > apparently "an ex-teacher from Wright State University". According to > ipatrol, the source claims that they have thousands of closed proxies > operated through closed sites, and that the board are well aware of this. > Apparently "the site's director" does not know, however. Apparently they > showed ipatrol a pay stub from "Wikimedia Foundation". Apparently the person > can also modify the content of diffs, which of course would imply that the > person had root access. > > Yes, this sounds like complete and utter nonsense to me too, but I figured I > should bring it up here since it is a pretty serious accusation (if > ridiculous). Ipatrol is apparently going to release the name of the person > to the WMF in private (naturally -l is not the best place to do such a > thing), so hopefully that will sort everything out. > > Can anyone shed some light on whether this is even feasible? I really don't > see how it could possibly be construed as being such. > > - Chris Down > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > If there is anything like that going on, even in planning, the board should be acknowledged. I know nothing of such a thing. So I suppose it is nonsence.
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