That's an interesting bunch of posts. I've pre-emptively salted one where the company name was in the posting.
They weren't all trying to commission spam though. Some of them are for using Wikipedia, including a mirror for mobile apps, others for creating Wikipedia like stuff including one chap who seems to want a wiki. Might be worth keeping an eye on in case more of them let slip their identities. WSC On 16 September 2011 11:16, petr skupa <skupa.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Seems to be surprisingly common practice there...: > > http://www.freelancer.com/search/wikipedia/ > > Petr [[u:Reo_On]] > > On 9/16/11, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> > wrote: > >>> > http://www.freelancer.com/projects/Copywriting/Wikipedia-Experience-Write-Needed.html > >>> > >>> Someone should send him some discouraging words. I don't have time to > >>> figure > >>> that website myself right now. > >>> > >>> I have to admit to being very tempted... but, integrity prevailed. > >> > >> I've been following the site for some time now. And have bid on jobs. > >> However, if you tell them you will follow Wikipedia policies they don't > >> hire you, for some reason. > >> > >> Fred > >> > >> > > > > Just out of interest, have you followed the pages the contracts would > > have been on, to see if there were any takers? > > > > > > -- > > -- > > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
