Text only | Text with Images

The Core

Why We Are Here => Web Development => Topic started by: rcjordan on January 11, 2014, 02:47:17 PM

Title: Sarah has been editing Wikipedia on behalf of paying clients
Post by: rcjordan on January 11, 2014, 02:47:17 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/24/sarah-stierch-wikimedia-wikipedia_n_2719716.html

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-January/129466.html
Title: Re: Sarah has been editing Wikipedia on behalf of paying clients
Post by: rcjordan on January 11, 2014, 04:53:19 PM
backstory

http://www.dailydot.com/news/sarah-stierch-wikimedia-wikipedia-paid-editing-scandal/
Title: Re: Sarah has been editing Wikipedia on behalf of paying clients
Post by: grnidone on January 14, 2014, 07:27:25 PM
Why did she advertise through job boards and why didn't she charge more?  LOTS more?
Title: Re: Sarah has been editing Wikipedia on behalf of paying clients
Post by: rcjordan on January 14, 2014, 09:21:58 PM
>LOTS

Yeah, she should have talked to Jan at Yahoo.
Title: Re: Sarah has been editing Wikipedia on behalf of paying clients
Post by: IrishWonder on January 15, 2014, 12:26:36 AM
QuoteA record of past projects on that page showed that she was paid $300 last month to create a "Wikipedia Page for an individual." Another ongoing project listed on her page showed Stierch commanding $44.44 an hour for editorial work on the site.
Sounds like oDesk to me

Which then explains the relatively low rate. oDesk is not exactly the place to charge a lot more for anything - it just wouldn't ever sell as you would be outbid on any project and in providers search by swarms of cheap third world providers.
Text only | Text with Images