On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org > wrote:
> (Note these are my own personal views and in no way reflect any views of > the WMF or anyone else) > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Christophe Henner < > christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Now, the question about "paid advocacy". Again, one of our core > > principle is NPOV. We don't want people to push their POV. Whether > > they're paid or not, is not relevant. > > > > So, to me, the "paid foobar" question is not the one in debate here. > > The one we're actually debating about is "do we want for profit > > organization to edit Wikipedia". > > > > I'd take this one step further: *paid* advocacy isn't necessarily the thing > we should be that much concerned about, as unpaid advocacy is just as bad > for the integrity of our content. There's no difference between someone who > inserts POV content because they're being paid to do so and someone who > inserts POV content because of their religious beliefs or personal > relationships or the like. > That's the key point right here. The entire focus on preventing "paid advocacy editing" is like fitting a 12-inch steel door at the front of the house, while leaving open doors and windows for social entrepreneurs of all sorts on all the other sides of the building. > > On the other hand, a paid advocate may perhaps be more concerning from a > community standpoint because it's likely that the paid advocate is going to > have more time and resources to devote to inserting POV content (and to > doing so in ways less likely to be "caught") than most unpaid advocates. > > Even more generally, even paid editing without advocacy may give a stigma > to the project even if the content really is fully NPOV. And, as mentioned > elsewhere, even paid editing without advocacy might discourage non-paid > contributions for various reasons. These reasons might be behind some of > the opposition to all paid editing. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
