I realise, and beg of people not to actually believe I buy into this, but when someone makes an accusation that someone is claiming to be a WMF employee and claims that there is a conspiracy, I tend to bring it up. I beg of people to not take me for an idiot.
- Chris On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Cary Bass <c...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > IRC is hardly a credible medium, and individuals frequently show up on > various channels and make up things for whatever reason. "Trolling" > is but one name for it. I suggest if it happens again, you look for > one of the channel contacts and get more information. For example, a > list of people with access to the #wikimedia channel can be found by > typing: > > /msg ChanServ access #wikimedia list > > > Admittedly, if you're a conspiracy theorist, it's reasonable to assume > that whoever responds is part of the conspiracy... > > Cary > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFJrXt6yQg4JSymDYkRAsy0AJ95D01M+KT78Ur5ildHJj8u3ErxpACgxQXU > ZEpVC8PPhDpfeWbnMzWxGyA= > =TzEi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l