You can now earn $48,000 a year from Wikipedia, totally legally and with virtually zero effort

[ChaosMeRee]

How hard is it to become a Wikipedia Administrator, really? Not very. You need basic literacy and general common sense. You need lots of free time, that's all. Pretty much anyone can do it if they have those three things. Hence why the current crop of Wikipedia Administrators, and all past incarnations, have never really stood out as the titans of our age. Not very smart, ethical or empathetic.

Based on Cullen328's estimated earnings of $60 an hour advising clients "every step of the way" editing Wikipedia, then for just five hours work a day, for just four days a week, for just forty weeks a year, you can potentially be earning $48,000 a year.

Wowsers.

To earn that amount, all you need to is to become a Wikipedia Administrator, then then as Cullen328 has done, advertise your services as a Wikipedia consultant on Upwork. All that takes is an investment of a couple of years and a few thousand edits to pass RfA, then a few clicks to create your Upwork profile.

You have to become and be a Wikipedian, sure, but I'm pretty sure most people will be prepared to do something as morally wrong as that, for the reward of $48,000 a year. And obviously, as seen by the current activity requirements, and the principle it is a role for life, the necessary act of maintaining your status as an Administrator so that you can keep earning $48,000 a year, is trivially easy. Harder to care for a house plant to be fair.

Consider the benefits too....

* You don't need any qualifications or training
* You are your own boss
* You can work in complete secrecy
* You can work anywhere, at home, on a beach, on a toilet seat even.

Unlike any other form of consulting, you are also totally covered in terms of liability. While obviously it is in your own best interests to do a good job for your clients and make sure they are happy with what you gave them for their money, should the worst happen, any risk or harm to your clients is totally theirs to bear. Since legally speaking, your arrangement is no more than a random citizen talking to them in a bar or cafe.

While your status as a Wikipedia Administrator has a clear marketing value, being the means by which clients can be reassured you "know what [you] are talking about", it carries no other significance, legally speaking. And for similar reasons, your liability to Wikipedia is also essentially, nay literally, nil. You have no contractual relationship with Wikipedia beyond the Terms of Use, which you are in full compliance with if all you do is advise your clients.

To cover yourself of course, you make all of this crystal clear in any offering and documentation you give to clients.

And of course, one extremely attractive benefit to all those budding entrepreneurs out there - there is no lower age limit. There have been and probably still are many Administrators who are still legally children. Obviously going to school limits your earning potential, but not having a mortgage, wife or kids of your own means you can probably scrape by on a mere proportion of $48,000 a year.

This is all totally legit and allowed, at least as far as Wikipedia policy and the Wikimedia Terms of Use are concerned. I'm quite confident that in pretty much all jurisdictions, it is entirely legal too. Some may legally protect the term "consultant" to enforce some kind of professional standards, so just call yourself an adviser. Easy.

$48,000 a year, totally legally, earnt by an untrained unqualified child who answers to nobody. And to earn that money, you actually work less hours and with far better conditions than most high ranking professionals.

Is there a gig that even comes close to this level of AWESOME?

If that all sounds too good to be true, that there MUST be some kind of catch or something I have missed, all I can say is, according to Cullen328, there are more than enough clients out there willing to pay this money for this service under these conditions. And I have absolutely no reason to doubt him.

The unofficial benefits are even better. You get to earn a seriously good living off the back of the gullible volunteers still grinding away building and maintaining Wikipedia for free. The few hundred of them who voted to make you an Administrator aren't even entitled to know you cynically monetized their trust to secure a very wealthy future for you and your family.

[suckadmin]

Congrats on creating a post topic that almost got deleted as spam

[ericbarbour]

Congrats on creating a post topic that almost got deleted as spam

Fun and wacky guy, isn't he?.....

[ChaosMeRee]

Meh.

Some people would write this topic up with a title like....

* "Admins paid to advise clients"

....leading to the emabrasing site of the debate on a supposed Wikipedia critic forum ending up as deadlocked as the debate on Wikipedia itself, before quietly dying a death as if it was just another trivial matter.

Anyone who doesn't think it is OUTRAGEOUS that an unqualified child can now earn $48,000 a year from their bedroom doing something completely legal as their own boss and in complete and total secrecy, all because someone one day invented Wikipedia and then had it taken away from them by scum like Beeblebrox, and that this would quite rightly be one of the biggest scandals in Wikipedia history if the press were doing its job rather than giving Jess Wade rim-jobs, need to stay the fuck away from me.

Far far away.

[ChaosMeRee]

It also occurred to me that you don't even need to be an active Admin to earn this money.

Just pass RfA, do the bare minimum for a year, turn in your tools at WP:BN claiming you no longer have time for Wikipedia, and bingo. You're free and clear.

You are still technically a trusted Wikipedia Administrator in good standing, allowed to resume your duties at any time after a perfunctory 24 hour hold. The reason you gave to the Bureaucrats for resigning isn't even a lie, it just isn't the full story, but it is apparently none of their business that the reason you no longer have time to volunteer for Wikipedia is because you will be spending all your time earning money as a Wikipedia consultant using your status as an Administrator.

You are still keeping up with developments in Wikipedia policy and culture, because that is how you pay your bills. But you don't have to lift a finger being a Wikipedia volunteer. It is actually in your interests to disengage as a volunteer, since it then makes it impossible for anyone to accuse you of crossing the line from advising in complete secrecy (totally legit) to editing for clients (illegitimate unless it comes with full transparency).

And you certainly never have to suffer the indignity of being maligned as a legacy Administrator by the great and the good of Wikipedia. You are a hero. You did your bit, then you retired.

Take a look around. How many previously active and highly trusted Administrators have already just disappeared in totally banal circumstances? Former addicts suddenly discovering real life.

Off to earn that filthy lucre more like.

Their eyes opened. Their arms held wide.

Dirty greedy filthy little cunts.

[ericbarbour]

lolol

[boredbird]

Congrats on creating a post topic that almost got deleted as spam

Fun and wacky guy, isn't he?.....

i just have no idea who this could possibly be, been wracking my brain but no answers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhzzAUaOzsk