I've signed up, for the heck of it - I wonder how big of a scam it is. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:01 PM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:53 AM, masti <mast...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/18/2010 12:30 PM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: > >> Any one signed up yet? > >> http://www.ereleases.com/pr/visibility-wikipedia-easier-43135 > >> > > I'm not able to find it now but there was an article form marketing/PR > > professionals to fellow marketeers describing why not to do exactly this > > what is offered here. > > > > The result of such editing is usually not worth ruining the reputation > > if the articles are marked as spam. > > > > What they offer is to write them in a way it will not be easily > > dicovered. And that is braking our rules. > > Where do they say that? > > Their code of ethics is much like the OTRS practises. > > http://wikipediaexperts.com/codeofethics.html > > Of course our OTRS practises are .. in practise by openly disclosed > OTRS volunteers, and we have no idea how well wikipediaexperts works > in practise or who they are in our wikis, editing our articles. > > I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt, but someone > (WMF?) should ask them to provide a sample of their work for review. > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
