Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF and the Ladder of Citizen Participation

2016-12-30 Thread Rogol Domedonfors
> > > Rogol, there are some interesting ideas in this model, and perhaps useful > language to prompt discussion, but you cannot fit a societal model to a > modest sized organization. > > Your conclusion would rely on the WMF (or indeed the Community of > Wikimedians) having an inexhaustible supply

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Where is WMF with pursuing companies that offer paid editing services

2016-12-30 Thread Pine W
Forwarding to Legal. I'm aware of the general problem of undisclosed COI editing, and agree that there should be some enforcement of this, particularly given that WMF wants to use Wikipedia's NPOV and RS policies as part of WMF's marketing. I also wonder if WMF might be able to recover the costs of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF and the Ladder of Citizen Participation

2016-12-30 Thread
Rogol, there are some interesting ideas in this model, and perhaps useful language to prompt discussion, but you cannot fit a societal model to a modest sized organization. Your conclusion would rely on the WMF (or indeed the Community of Wikimedians) having an inexhaustible supply of politicians

[Wikimedia-l] Where is WMF with pursuing companies that offer paid editing services

2016-12-30 Thread Jytdog at Wikipedia
I am interested to learn if WMF management or the board has discussed taking legal action against companies that offer services to edit Wikipedia and that have no on-Wiki presence disclosing their edits (in en-WP at least) per the Terms of Use. We all know the companies and their websites, where t