Hello all! I became confused watching this [1] job post on Upwork with the title "Create 20 pages in the Bulgarian Wikipedia". The client offered 30 USD for this task. The job post says:
> > > > > > > > > *This is a small experimental project. The goal is to check if people on > Upwork.com can help grow the Bulgarian Wikipedia in a quality way. I also > wish to *not* cannibalize edits that would have happened anyway. The > created content will be in the public domain. It's a gift to all > Bulgarians. We follow all the values, guidelines and rules valid on the > Bulgarian WIkipedia: https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > <https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/>Уикипедия:Поведение . This includes > following the specific wiki syntax and the usual expectations of all pages, > especially good sources and categorization of the page. Some experience > editing Wikipedia is desired, but not required. Since these are supposed to > be net new edits, I will prefer people who have fewer than 100 Wikipedia > edits so far. Due to this social benefit, the proposed price is far below > market price. As Bulgarians say, the payment is symbolic. For this > experiment, I've selected 20 articles that exist in the English Wikipedia, > but don't yet exist in the Bulgarian Wikipedia. That gives you the option > to use Wikipedia's translation tool, which may make your work much faster > and more pleasant: Please note that the translation tool has some specifics > that take time to get used to, e.g., adding references, representing other > alphabets -- I can help with such issues. The list of proposed articles is > here: https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > <https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/>Потребител:Cryout/Чрез_ЪпУърк I hope you > will enjoy this variety of content. Still, the list is negotiable and we > can swap articles in and out per your preference. * > Is it going in the right way? I'm a Lil' bit confused. Besides this, you'll get tons of paid editing job posts on Upwork, freelancer and other freelance networks. At first, I used to report these posts but there are so many of them that it's not possible for me to find all of them and report them. [1] https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~01371a50692d0540d0 Best regards, Rafi
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