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WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by kbumsik »

puranjay wrote: post #29
flanbiscuit wrote: post #4

Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?

Medium is quickly going down the Quora path for me. The content quality is becoming poorer as more and more people use it as a place to dump their zero-traffic blog posts. The aggressive content gating and pop-ups are another Quora-esque introduction. Just a case of being blinded by metrics. Adding an aggressive sign-up form might get you more emails and sign-ups, but it will also annoy away better quality users.

It is worse than Quora now because Medium not only requires sign-ins bit asks for subscription to read.

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by orthoxerox »

zadkey wrote: post #2

On a tangential note, there is r/disneyvacation/ that pokes fun aty the bad drawings on wikihow and recaptions them.

There's also /r/notdisneyvacation, for image-caption combos that can't be made more bizarre if you try.

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by ComputerGuru »

ravenstine wrote: post #10
flanbiscuit wrote: post #4

Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?

Why is it always Medium that's blamed for this but not mainstream news websites? I'm pretty sure I've been paywalled by sites like NYT yet people keep posting links to them.

Because Medium doesn’t author anything. It’s as if NYT consisted of nothing but “letters to the editor” (without an editor and not in response to anything that was previously published, because they would be publishing nothing in the equivalent scenario) and then decided to put up a paywall.

There are countless free (and even ad-free) text-only hosting options available. Medium provides nothing of value to me as a consumer. It doesn’t even aggregates the content, people selectively post it to Medium themselves!

I say this as someone that pays for about a dozen online newspaper/magazine subscriptions but will never pay a penny to access a site like Medium or Scribd or Quora or any other site that does nothing but make money off being the middle man.

Anyway, it’s all moot as Medium will inevitably shutter or pivot. Their model is dead, the only reason people chose to post to Medium is because it offered some views. If those views are killed off by requiring a paywall, then Medium itself becomes defunct.

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by oefrha »

blackearl wrote: post #30
oefrha wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can love what you love. I prefer a factual title.

I don't see how the current title isn't factual

I guess isn’t doing its job, so let me temporarily break the guidelines:

“GLOBAL network of freelancers, PRIMARILY in the Philippines” != “an army of freelancers in the Philippines”.

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by davidwparker »

derefr wrote: post #28
flanbiscuit wrote: post #4

Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?

Weirdly enough, I think it only does it if it knows you’ve been logged into Medium on your device before, but are currently logged out. Probably because “analytics engineering reasons”—i.e. it wants to correlate the view with some account’s clickstream, and it really looks like that account should be yours, but it also knows that it’s been a while and so it might now be a guest, and so has logged you out temporarily.…

This isn't the case as I've never had a medium account and it still blocked me.

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by LudwigNagasena »

colmvp wrote: post #17
oefrha wrote: post #7

Please don’t editorialize titles, four out of five times the editorialized title is strictly worse, and often it’s straight up wrong , like in this case. If you don’t like the original title due to omission of info, you can at least use the HTML title: > wikiHow’s art is made by a global network of freelancers, primarily in the Philippines. (Emphasis mine.)

OP's headline saves you a click, versus the original title: "We Finally Figured Out Who Makes wikiHow’s Bizarre Art"

Saves more than a click because it requires you to sign in to read the article.

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by lovich »

oefrha wrote: post #35
blackearl wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see how the current title isn't factual

I guess isn’t doing its job, so let me temporarily break the guidelines: “GLOBAL network of freelancers, PRIMARILY in the Philippines” != “an army of freelancers in the Philippines”.

Those are functionally equivalent imo. The NYPD operates in other cities and countries. I wouldn't expect people to preface a description of them by saying they were a global police force based primarily in the Phillipines

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

oefrha wrote: post #7

Please don’t editorialize titles, four out of five times the editorialized title is strictly worse, and often it’s straight up wrong , like in this case. If you don’t like the original title due to omission of info, you can at least use the HTML title: > wikiHow’s art is made by a global network of freelancers, primarily in the Philippines. (Emphasis mine.)

suggested title is 8 characters too long for submission.

on edit: changed original to suggested as being clearer.

Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines

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Post by mellosouls »

Getting to the bottom of one of the internet’s most ridiculously drawn mysteries

Seems like quite a snotty article tbh.

WikiHow's art has always reminded me of "How it Works" style children's books, it seems functional and clearly has made an impression in some quarters.

By all means shed some light on it if that's interesting; I don't see the need for the condescending attitude though.

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