I just want to note that the question i raised here was about what WMF itself was doing
about paid editing.
I was unhappy to see so much in that statement about what the community can/should do.
I agree with the Arbcom statement that while it is good that Legal noted that its comments
about en-wiki were advisory only, the statement fails to deal adequately with OUTING in
en-wiki. The issue is not easy and to be frank the content in the statement about that
was disappointingly not carefully thought-through. The objections were very easy to
foresee.
I hope legal will revise it.
On Jan 26, 2017, at 2:45 PM, GorillaWarfare <gorillawarfarewikipedia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The Arbitration Committee has just published a response to this statement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard#R…
– Molly (GorillaWarfare)
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Jacob Rogers
<jrogers(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,
As I mentioned in my email earlier this month, we've put together a longer
statement regarding paid editing and how we see the balance of the
communities' role and the role that WMF legal can play in these cases. We
tried to address the concerns that people have raised to us, and explain
when it's helpful to contact us to assist on a case. Of note, it does
explain what actions we can take even in cases that don't involve the WMF
trademarks.
You can find it here: Wikimedia Foundation statement on paid editing and
outing
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation_statement_on_paid_editing_and_outing>
Best,
Jacob
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