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 fro

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

On 7 January 2017 at 20:31, Jytdog at Wikipedia wrote: > With those companies freely (and often mockingly) advertising their > services, the spigot is opened wide - they constantly get more customers > and send people here to edit.I would like to know if legal is > authorized to take action t

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

Just want to note that in my OP I had linked to an ANI thread (now archived here ) about the discovery of a long term paid editor; the same editors who found that, have found another -- this time the

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

Undisclosed paid promotional editing is one of the biggest risks we face not only to the quality of our content but to our reputation. We need to do a more to address it. No company editing Wikipedia for pay should be allowed to use the Wikipedia logo or name IMO. I am not sure how much the law al