I've looked at a great deal of detectable paid editing on the english WP. Only about 10% of it is of acceptable quality, with respect to both notability of subject and quality of contents. On similar topics, the quality of volunteer editing is considerably better--at least 30% is acceptable. (about half the enWP submissions have always been rejected at one stage or another, even with our relatively very undemanding standards).
Like Andrew, I consider the work on non-profits, especially universities, to be even worse than the work on commercial businesses, both for paid and unpaid edits--this is partly enthusiastic alumni, but also the very low quality of most organizational PR departments) Unpaid advocacy is a much more difficult problem, because its much harder to sort out from honest attempts at NPOV. I see no solution to that one without our general framework. On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:15 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > Gerard Meijssen wrote: > >I want to open up the discussion even wider. The way things are stated is > >that paid editing is not acceptable. > > > I'm not sure what you mean. > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Paid_editing is still a very rough draft, > but the first sentence is currently: > > --- > Paid editing is fairly common on Wikimedia wikis. It takes various forms, > with a few being widely accepted and a few being incredibly controversial. > --- > > I would like Wikimedia to be explicit about what is and is not acceptable > for editors. If Wikidata takes a different approach, we should document > that as well. But the goal isn't to pr[oe]scribe, it's to describe. > > Some of the posts from this mailing list may be very helpful in expanding > that page. I'm sure there are many other past discussions from the various > wikis and mailing lists we can incorporate as well. Be bold. :-) If it's > just the page title you'd like to change, I agree that the current page > title ("Paid editing") is not great. The "Conflict of interest editing" > page has some related content, but that title also didn't feel right to me. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- David Goodman DGG at the enWP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
