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Wikipedia doesn't need your money. They have over $60 million in assets with $20 million in the bank in cash. Only a fraction of your donation goes to hosting, and none to content creators.
Google's rankings are determined by humans who create an algorithm to do what they want. I believe that as time has gone on Google has changed its algorithm to specifically favor Wikipedia's content, and that Google represents the 'gold standard" of web content for Google. This worked well for Google while Wikipedia's content was acceptable to most users. Now the design and quality have fallen behind Google is now in a difficult situation. They are effectively promoting old fashioned and substandard content as their top result. That's why they started the Knowledge Graph -- to strip the facts out of Wikipedia so that they could present them without having Wikipedia as the top link. But the facts aren't good enough. It's not enough to present a list of facts (or even links) to searchers, they need more "human" content. So Google is stuck with Wikipedia for a while, ultimately harming Google's image. I wrote a couple of articles about this on my blog: http://newslines.org/blog/google-and-wikipedia-best-friends-forever/ and http://newslines.org/blog/googles-black-hole/
If he didn't have a well documented drug and alcohol problem, possible mental health issues and a tendency to "accidentally/through no fault of his own/coincidentally" find himself on the wrong side of the law, he'd probably have an equal chance as Trump.
As it stands now, McAfee and his "bad press" over the past few years are his worst enemy.
Well I wasn't looking for jobs on them until after they had already dried up, so I'm more or less a vagrant writer at this point. I know http://newslines.org/ will pay you $1 per 50-100 word news post thing, but I've never done it because I need a higher rate of income than that. You might wanna check it out though, it seems easy to make small chunks of cash with minimal effort.
yes. it is still relevant. here's Jul 7, 2015 article:
> The WMF (The WikiMedia Foundation) has nothing to do with the content. None of the over $50 million in donations it raises each year go towards the content at all. Only $2.5 million goes to hosting, the rest goes to the WMF itself – for international travel, expensive office equipment and a large team of engineers that does not produce much.
http://newslines.org/blog/reddit-and-wikipedia-share-the-same-disease/
well you know the shit. check this too: /r/WikiInAction or this
> The WMF (The WikiMedia Foundation) has nothing to do with the content. None of the over $50 million in donations it raises each year go towards the content at all. Only $2.5 million goes to hosting, the rest goes to the WMF itself – for international travel, expensive office equipment and a large team of engineers that does not produce much.
http://newslines.org/blog/reddit-and-wikipedia-share-the-same-disease/
It depends what you mean by an "encyclopedia". Wikipedia is a number of different projects shoehorned into the same user interface and wiki software. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a news archive, a medical directory, a movie and TV guide, a biography site and fan site. The encyclopedia part of Wikipedia is more or less complete (how much new stuff is there to write about dinosaurs) so most of the editing and page views are actually on news-based pages and biographies, a notable exception being the page on Ebola.
For an encyclopedia you could try Britannica, for a movie guide you could try imdb.com, for a news archive you can check my site Newslines, (http://newslines.org) and for medical there's the Mayo clinic, Wikia does fan site etc. You may want to read some of my blog posts on Wikipedia's weaknesses here: http://newslines.org/blog/wikipedias-13-deadly-sins/
This would be the best place to build your mind and have discussion while earning credit at the same time.
I think this would help explore your potential without worrying about money.But don't spam or else the Mod will banned you,once you get familiar with this, you can earn a lot.
If you are above 13 years old and once you reach 25$ you can cash out via Paypal.
The earning method : There are various way to earn, but the most profitable one is to create quality content(very much creative and easy to read,on the point.And then sharing them on fb,twitter etc and another one is to invite other as a referral.
You can read more in FAQ section.
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There is Another one : http://newslines.org/about/
Newslines is perfect for people who:
1 People who want to learn more about current news
2 Fans who want to create a timeline of their favorite person, company or historical event
3 Truth-seekers who want to find the truth about a topic by finding out what actually happened
Warning! This is not a get-rich-quick scheme. You must satisfy the following conditions to apply:
1 You must be a native English speaker
2 You must be willing to invest your time now for the potential to make big returns later
3 You understand there may be no, or very low, earnings until the site grows
4 You just be willing to follow our formatting guidelines
my other comment:
check this too: /r/WikiInAction or this
> The WMF (The WikiMedia Foundation) has nothing to do with the content. None of the over $50 million in donations it raises each year go towards the content at all. Only $2.5 million goes to hosting, the rest goes to the WMF itself – for international travel, expensive office equipment and a large team of engineers that does not produce much.
http://newslines.org/blog/reddit-and-wikipedia-share-the-same-disease/
>the abuses that we list on this subreddit are a feature, not a bug.
You may be interested in my analysis of how the wiki software itself is the root of most Wikipedia problems: http://newslines.org/blog/wikipedias-13-deadly-sins/
>http://newslines.org/robin-williams/
Dear lord. Newslines is wikipedia without useful information and with largely anecdotal videos. The interface is jarring and abrupt and I feel like I'm on a social network site for topics not a fucking encyclopedia
Looks good. I'm a little skeptical but I'll try it out. It should be easy to make 50 word post.
How about we start to a referral train. Not sure if I used OPs link right since I had to go through the login page to register(on mobile). If it didn't work OP, please tell me so I can use my computer when I get home to properly register under you.
My referral link: http://newslines.org/?ref=4118
It's actually an interesting question, because while we want traffic --and search engines give a lot of traffic -- we don't want to be in the situation where Google or another search engine can penalize the site if they don't like it. That's what happened with Mahalo, a human-powered search engine run by Jason Calacanis -- Google changed their algorithm and killed it. So, rather than relying on SEO and Google we are seeking alternative distribution methods and tie-ups with large publishers. This will have the side effect of pushing us higher in search rankings anyway, but it will give us independent distribution if Google tries to block us.
We want Newslines to become a destination site, which means that you go there first to search without going through Google. Right now, to find out about a person, many people go to Google, which leads them directly to Wikipedia. They read the top few Wikipedia paragraphs and that's it. This is inefficient, and doesn't give the reader good value. We want to replace that behavior with people coming directly to Newslines to search. The main difference is that when you go to Google you see a list of static and boring links, and when you come to Newslines you see updated news events. If you'd like to read more, I wrote a blog post about the problems with Google search. I'm happy to discuss further if you like.
Much of the time solutions to Wikipedia's problems miss the target because the diagnosis is wrong. Admins having too much power on Wikipedia is a symptom, not the cause: the cause is software design and policy that allows the abuses to happen.
The solution to admins who have too much power is not to disclose their real names, but to fix the system that gives them too much power in the first place. Similarly, paying admins does nothing to fix the system that gives them too much power.
There are many ways to fix these problems, some of which we use at Newslines. For example, assigning random editors to approve other editors' edits, and making sure that editors and admins don't have 'ownership' over pages. We added over 30,000 posts without a single edit war or any harassment because we designed our system to avoid those things.
We are restarting our crowdsourcing efforts over the next few weeks, and hope to attract people who are interested in creating a "Wikipedia For News," without the harassment.
"You look like a young Woody Harrelson."
Name: MediaBub
Pitch: A Hacker News for Media professionals. Add, upvote and comment on the day's best media news
More details: Run by founders of Newslines, a crowdsourced news search engine. We built MediaBub to help us understand the media market.
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Read her annotated texts. The alleged rape was on August 27, 2012. On October 4, 2012, she wrote "I love you Paul, Where are you???"
http://www.scribd.com/doc/254707657/Annotated-messages
You might also want to read his suit, so you understand how the University breached the various duties it had to him:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/262956362/Nungesser-Filed-Complaint
Then for an overview of the whole case you could try the timeline I made:
Wikipedia is bureaucratic because the software is so free form. When anyone can add anything at any time a huge amount of rules are required. When there are lots of rules there are plenty of people who will argue over their application. These rues are not necessary in a better designed system. You may be interested in this article about some of Wikipeidia's issues: http://newslines.org/blog/wikipedias-13-deadly-sins/
I don't own the site or anything. If you post a certain number of good quality articles, you can become an editor. So I hope that clears that up.
But there is no word count limit. They're not really "articles", more like timeline entries. Take a look at this, for instance: http://newslines.org/google-glass/
It's definitely possible to achieve, say, minimum wage once you get an efficient system for making posts.