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06-20-2014, 06:14 PM
Wikipedia's New Rules: Editors Must Disclose If They Are Paid
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The new terms of service requires that any editor specifically paid to write or edit a Wikipedia entry disclose his affiliation on his edit summary and user page. Volunteer editors, or people who might make "good faith" edits as part of their jobs, are **t affected
See also: Wikipedia Looked Pretty Much the Same 13 Years Ago (http://mashable.com/2014/01/15/wikipedia-turns-13/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
"We believe that undisclosed paid advocacy editing is a black hat practice that can threaten the trust of Wikimedia’s volunteers and readers." wrote Geoff Brigham, general counsel for Wikimedia, in a blog post (https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/16/change-terms-of-use-requirements-for-disclosure/) outlining the changes. "We have serious concerns about the way that such editing affects the neutrality and reliability of Wikipedia." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/wikipedia-rules-change/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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The new terms of service requires that any editor specifically paid to write or edit a Wikipedia entry disclose his affiliation on his edit summary and user page. Volunteer editors, or people who might make "good faith" edits as part of their jobs, are **t affected
See also: Wikipedia Looked Pretty Much the Same 13 Years Ago (http://mashable.com/2014/01/15/wikipedia-turns-13/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
"We believe that undisclosed paid advocacy editing is a black hat practice that can threaten the trust of Wikimedia’s volunteers and readers." wrote Geoff Brigham, general counsel for Wikimedia, in a blog post (https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/16/change-terms-of-use-requirements-for-disclosure/) outlining the changes. "We have serious concerns about the way that such editing affects the neutrality and reliability of Wikipedia." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/wikipedia-rules-change/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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