James, I think it is very nice to put measures against paid editing, but it would be nicer to put measures to get editors more free time to edit voluntarily... There are not that many suggestions on how to do it, so it could be that it cannot be done.
Cheers, Micru On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:14 AM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > With respect to paid promotional editing, I have done a bit work trying to > address it. For example I reached out to Upworks the company behind Elance > and Fiverr and they are interested in working together on this. Have been a > little distracted and not sure if there is sufficient community or > foundation support to move forwards. > > With respect to using AI to detect paid editing, I spoke with Aaron > Halfaker about the possibility in Nov 2015. What he needed was datasets of > confirmed paid promotional editors. I have sent him some details. If others > have details that would likely be useful. Things are in the very very early > stages from what I understand. > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
