On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:52 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/2 Chris Down neuro.wikipe...@googlemail.com:
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.
o_0
If we were doing such a thing:
1. we wouldn't be paying anyone
2. we'd be shouting it from the rooftops.
Nice idea, actually. Anyone feel they could put together a serious
programme to recruit academics to such a cause?
(changed subject as this is an interesting discussion)
I was thinking about this as well recently and yes, Thomas, I agree,
this is something that could coordinated or at least supported by
chapters, many of which have good connections to local universities.
Michael
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Michael Bimmler
mbimm...@gmail.com
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