Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

Just a quick note on the 350 edits per minute. Zach described that somewhat as "facts are constantly checked." In general many edits are vandalism and add false, defamatory, or nonsense content, and many edits add content that may or may not be factual (unsourced or otherwise flaky). Wikipedia

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

Thanks for this Jacob. Would you please address Legal's approach to the following scenario: a company advertises Wikipedia editing services for clients, and there is no disclosure of paid editing by an editor employed by or affiliated with the company on Wikipedia. (In other words, a company

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

that letter in the list. There are things the WMF could be doing that the community cannot. On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Jytdog at Wikipedia <jytdogte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your note, Jacob. > > It is great to know that WMF is happy to help with specific on-Wiki > issu

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

Thanks for your note, Jacob. It is great to know that WMF is happy to help with specific on-Wiki issues, working from the ground up, as it were. Yes members of the community are constantly playing whack-a-mole to deal with specific incidents. The reason I asked the original question, is that

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

mpanies that > > offer > > > paid editing services > > > > > >> Heu > > >> > > >> To be fair it's a topic that isn't currently in our plate. > > >> > > >> So to be honest, from a board lev

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

Thanks Katherine. I look forward to hearing from someone. On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Katherine Maher wrote: > Hi Jytdog, all - > > A gentle and kind reminder that the WMF offices are closed for the holidays > right now. Please look for an answer when we return. > >

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

to do in the near future. > > > > > > If it turns out that the answers are "we aren't doing much and we > aren't > > > planning to do more", then yes, asking the higher-ups to do something > > about > > > this sounds like a good idea. By the way, I thi

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

Pine, thanks for your reply, but Legal will not do anything like this unless they are instructed by management. That is why I directed my question to the board and management. I've asked at Jimbo's talk page (bad timing, archived over the holidays, will repost) and at Katherine's WP talk page.

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

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