Wikipedia talk:Thoughts on Wikipedia Editing and Digital Labor

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Caitlin Dewey (22 July 2015). "You don't know it, but you're working for Facebook. For free". The Washington Post. In a 2014 essay, the Wikipedian and archivist Dorothy Howard proffered one idea: a sort of "Partner Program," similar to YouTube's, that compensates super-editors and mods for the role they play in the site's function.

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Nice essay. Sorry to see this hasn't gotten much traction yet. Wbm1058 (talk) 00:34, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Implications for privilege/oppression Agreed with Wbm, this is a very interesting topic and I am glad you took the time to write this essay.

I think Wikipedia is a great resource and I support it a lot, but I sympathize with you, in that I also fear that it could easily lead to the exploitation of people who are predisposed to volunteerism. However, I also think an important point is to recognize who even has the privilege to be exploited this way. There have been a lot of critiques of male/white/rich hierarchies within Wikipedian culture.

I think this probably has a lot to do with what you are discussing in this article. Wikipedia naturally attracts people who have a respect and attraction to shared knowledge, but it is like that many people who are already disadvantaged by society in some way will not have the time/resources/energy to participate in knowledge sharing on Wikipedia, compared to people with more social advantages.

I do not really have any suggestions to counteract this. I just think it's something worth consider, on this topic.Pianosandwich (talk) 20:11, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikimania 2015 presentations[edit]

Headhunting of volunteers – A presentation by Kiril Simeonovski (m:User:Kiril Simeonovski).

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Digital Labor and Wikipedia
Is this on any videos?

Thanks, see also Wikimania 2015 slides: --Atlasowa (talk) 18:10, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]