On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Florence Devouard <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello > > > Is there a place (I looked on meta and saw nothing) where the situation > with regards to paid editing or more generally the practices toward > declaration of conflict of interest in all linguistic versions of Wikipedia > summarized ? > > For example, I more or less know that the English version requires the > user to not create an account with the name of his company; requires to > basically mention when there is a potential COI; and ask preferably to edit > talk pages rather than directly. > > I more or less know that the French version does not seem to care if > accounts feature a company name (or rather a derivative version of the > company name); that indicating a potential COI is better; but that directly > editing the wikipedia page is fine. > > I have no idea how other languages deal with this. > > I was interviewed today by a "journalist" from a historian publication and > she asked me what was the status of this for a couple of other languages, > in particular Spanish and Italian (I guess she knew these languages, which > I do not). I realized I had no idea > > If there is a Spanish and/or an Italian person around, I would be happy to > know. > > But more generally, would not it be interesting to gather somewhere (uh, > meta) the current practices with regards to COIs ? > > Florence > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest_editing for a placeholder. Steven _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
