Hi there, I agree that we should take action and make it real hard for any corporation financially to achieve this result.
Legal action is one thing, but the first thing to be done is to ensure that all affairs of the type are detected and publicly outed, on the very articles if there is large media coverage. I would be in favor of a banner over the article stating the article has been targeted for promotional purposes by the company. Maybe we should start a whole independent wikipedia project proposing a « conflict of interest rating » just as wikirating does it for financial markets. James, I dont believe this can be done at chapter level (at the current state of things) : it must be addressed by the WMF and the communities. Regards (I’ve just added sourced chunks of the controversies on the French wiki by the way, maybe we could ask the community to do it in every language?) Nattes à chat > Le 14 avr. 2017 à 07:49, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > With respect to Pine's request for more legal support to help deal with > undisclosed paid editing issues, to that I strongly agree. > > To better address these concerns we need the WMF, communities, and > affiliate organizations to collaborate. It is a difficult problem to > address. > > James > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I tend to think along James' lines more than Risker's. >> >> Responding to Risker: >> >> It seems to me that the key point that you're missing is that Burger King >> altered Wikipedia content in order to execute this campaign. This wasn't a >> simple case of an organization reusing existing Wikipedia content; the >> organization appears to have altered Wikipedia content to suit their >> purposes regardless of an obvious conflict of interest with Wikipedia's >> purpose of being an educational resource rather than an advertising >> platform. >> >> It seems to me that entities of varying sizes -- from a start-up brand that >> wants to make itself look important by having a Wikipedia article, to large >> corporations and government officials -- will continue to alter Wikipedia >> content in ways that are inappropriate and do a disservice to our readers >> (including advertising, inserting "alternative facts" for medical and >> political content, and eliminating negative information that certain people >> and organizations find inconvenient) and cost editors' and administrators' >> collective time and attention, until there is a financial price that is put >> on this kind of behavior that is large enough to deter them. I don't see >> why we should stand idly by as our products' quality and trustworthiness >> are degraded and our resources are diverted. I'm hoping that WMF's >> enforcement actions in this domain would more than pay for themselves >> through financial penalties that WMF extracts from the wrongdoers. >> >> Pine >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
