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> On Dec 10, 2021, at 11:53 AM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I personally am more concerned about paid conflict of interest editing and > much less concerned about paid non conflict of interest work. This appears on > superficial overview to be the latter. Will be interested to see how this > experiment turns out. > > James > >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 9:47 AM Mrb Rafi <mrbrafi1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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/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/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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/QOPUIPET6TQAQRV5YDC32L7SBVG3A7MT/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/PNVZ323GVJ3JB3AZJYE3G6YVP6EK5DTN/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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