[Wikimedia-l] Paid editing language wide

[Steven Walling]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Florence Devouard <anthere9 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hello
>
>
> Is there a place (I looked on meta and saw nothing) where the situation
> with regards to paid editing or more generally the practices toward
> declaration of conflict of interest in all linguistic versions of Wikipedia
> summarized ?
>
> For example, I more or less know that the English version requires the
> user to not create an account with the name of his company; requires to
> basically mention when there is a potential COI; and ask preferably to edit
> talk pages rather than directly.
>
> I more or less know that the French version does not seem to care if
> accounts feature a company name (or rather a derivative version of the
> company name); that indicating a potential COI is better; but that directly
> editing the wikipedia page is fine.
>
> I have no idea how other languages deal with this.
>
> I was interviewed today by a "journalist" from a historian publication and
> she asked me what was the status of this for a couple of other languages,
> in particular Spanish and Italian (I guess she knew these languages, which
> I do not). I realized I had no idea
>
> If there is a Spanish and/or an Italian person around, I would be happy to
> know.
>
> But more generally, would not it be interesting to gather somewhere (uh,
> meta) the current practices with regards to COIs ?
>
> Florence
>

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest_editing for a
placeholder.

Steven