<story><title>Sarah Stierch leaves Wikimedia Foundation over paid editing</title><url>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-January/129466.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>It is quite clear that nobody that&amp;#x27;s paid staff for Wikimedia Foundation should be doing paid editing.&lt;p&gt;But I&amp;#x27;m not liking the sound of:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; She did that even though it is widely known that paid editing is frowned upon by many in the editing communit&lt;p&gt;Yeah, it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;frowned upon&amp;quot; for _anyone_ to do paid editing, clearly. But &amp;quot;frowned upon&amp;quot; is not usually a good reason to fire someone.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s not already clearly against clearly stated policies for WMF employees to do paid editing, WMF is hopefully making it so pretty quickly.  Next time (which is definitely a &amp;#x27;when&amp;#x27; rather than an &amp;#x27;if&amp;#x27;, I&amp;#x27;m afriad), it should say &amp;quot;They did that even though paid editing is a clear violation of WMF conflict of interest policies,&amp;quot; not &amp;quot;it is frowned upon.&amp;quot; Time to get real.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sarah Stierch leaves Wikimedia Foundation over paid editing</title><url>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-January/129466.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aroch</author><text>Jeez, the white-knighting on her user:talk page is atrocious...&lt;p&gt;I say good riddance. We don&amp;#x27;t need paid shills in the WMF and we certainly don&amp;#x27;t need them writing and reviewing articles. There are enough issues, as is, with idiotic editors&amp;#x2F;reviewers and &amp;quot;policy&amp;quot; that those users have pushed as de jure.</text></comment>