For what its worth (apparently very little), I fully agree with Luca. Please start a different thread about this (and probably on a more suitable list), and I'll happily join in.
Lodewijk On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > For what it's worth, I agree with Kudpung that WMF should stop saying that > "All of the articles on Wikipedia are written by volunteers". I doubt that > anyone has reliable statistics on what percentages of articles are started > and/or edited by individuals who likely benefit financially from their > edits in one way or another, but the percentage on English Wikipedia is > likely to be significant. > > Pine > > > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:45 AM, cs <c...@edubkk.org> wrote: > >> ‘All of the articles on Wikipedia are written by volunteers’ >> >> You’ll need to correct that for your next video - if you knew the extent >> of paid editing, blackmail, and extortion we are discovering and trying to >> combat you’d fall off your chair or drop your camera. >> >> Kudpung >> >> On 3Aug, 2017, at 00:33, Victor Grigas <vgri...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >> Hello Wikimedians! >> >> My name is Victor Grigas, I’m a storyteller and video producer >> <https://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaFoundation/videos> at the >> Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that supports Wikipedia. Many of you >> may already know me or my work. I'll be in Montreal at Wikimania from >> Thursday August 10th through Sunday August 13th and wanted to ask that if >> you *know someone *or *are someone* who has an inspiring story to share >> about how you use Wikimedia projects, then we'd like to hear it! >> >> If you are interested, please answer a few questions on this private >> Google form or share it with someone you know who will be attending >> Wikimania: >> >> https://goo.gl/forms/h6a9TWFyFMs4qgua2 >> (All answers are confidential and we will not publish your story without >> first getting your written permission.) >> >> We publish profiles of Wikimedians here regularly: >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/communications/profiles/ >> >> Then, in Montreal I can take your portrait photo >> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_%28WMF%29#A_few_Wikipedians> >> for >> free to publish on Wikimedia Commons. I’ll be there from Thursday August >> 10th through Sunday August 13th. I’ll only need a few minutes of your time >> to take your photo and we can co-ordinate by email. Once I'm there, I'll >> have a better idea of where I'll be for the best lighting setup. >> >> If you have any questions, feel free to email Victor Grigas - >> vgri...@wikimedia.org >> >> Thank you! >> >> -- >> >> *Victor Grigas* >> Video Production Manager >> and Storyteller >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4ba28-oGs> >> vgri...@wikimedia.org >> https://donate.wikimedia.org/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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