tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428656570616900934.post5939098966674604863..comments2008-11-15T06:27:40.098-08:00Comments on Wikipedia Funnies: Have payment, will editCasey Abellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13639785087889695630noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428656570616900934.post-78331953287435364702008-11-15T06:27:00.000-08:002008-11-15T06:27:00.000-08:00I don't contribute anything of substance for free ...I don't contribute anything of substance for free to Wikipedia any more, because:<BR/><BR/>(A) I disagree with how much the Foundation is paying Sue Gardner.<BR/><BR/>(B) I disagree with how Erik Moeller was hired off the Board of Trustees, without so much as a job posting, much less a candidate search.<BR/><BR/>(C) My good content is likely to be altered to say "boobies are fun; Sean is a fayg!" by some anonymous IP. Until the Foundation implements "Sighted Versions" (or whatever the kids are calling it these days), it is a waste of effort and honor to contribute good work for free.<BR/><BR/>(D) If I can be paid for my labor, why wouldn't I elect only to contribute paid editing?<BR/><BR/>By the way, in the past 6 weeks, I've had three PAID CONTENT gigs! All the content is safely in place on Wikipedia, happily accepted by "the community", because I never explained to them who wrote the stuff, or that it was paid for.<BR/><BR/>MyWikiBiz is apparently "back in business" -- now with more delicious secrecy!<BR/><BR/>We tried transparency and the disinfecting sunlight of full disclosure in August-October 2006. Jimbo shut down that idea, so the alternative is clandestine operations.<BR/><BR/>Check out this blog post and the comments:<BR/><BR/>http://www.pr-squared.com/2008/11/wikipedia_101_for_marketers.htmlGregory Kohshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17207068772106028805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428656570616900934.post-6759418496720027792007-11-27T06:09:00.000-08:002007-11-27T06:09:00.000-08:00Why not just make contructive edits to articles yo...Why not just make contructive edits to articles you're interested in, and forget the drama?Casey Abellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13639785087889695630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428656570616900934.post-31402553784113399112007-11-26T21:11:00.000-08:002007-11-26T21:11:00.000-08:00Casey, you rock! Thanks for the fairly accurate s...Casey, you rock! Thanks for the fairly accurate summary of how I was maligned on Wikipedia. Only correction I would make is that you say there's no way I'll ever get back on Wikipedia. Says who?! I'm already gleefully editing away in various areas (mostly away from article space). I seem capable of asking questions that set off hundreds of kilobytes of dialog before they recognize my trademark style and ban the sockpuppet account. Not to mention, there have been dozens of socks not related to me that they THINK are me, so I get the joy of watching that, too.<BR/><BR/>Isn't it funny, the only articles they ever discovered that MyWikiBiz authored for pay were the ones I myself owned up to as examples? Those that I kept secret -- still thriving in Wikipedia, and my clients were delighted. Isn't that itself evidence that I was writing in the NPOV Wikipedia "style" all along?<BR/><BR/>Nimrods.Gregory Kohshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17207068772106028805noreply@blogger.com