There are a few examples of Conflict of Interest statements around; I recently posted one here, for use by GLAM professionals attending a Wikipedia Loves Libraries editathon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sarasays/COI
Might it make sense to provide an example (or a few multilingual examples) as part of the existing GLAMwiki documentation? Or maybe there is already one out there somewhere and I have missed it...
Sara
-----Original Message----- From: glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:glam-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Stefano Costa Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 9:28 AM To: glam@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [GLAM] My conflict of interest statement
Il 2013-10-30 22:35 Dominic McDevitt-Parks ha scritto:
Hi all,
As you may have heard [1], I am now a full-time, permanent staff member at the US National Archives employed to work on Wikipedia initiatives. This makes me, even more clearly so than previous Wikipedians in Residence which are often temporary workers or interns, a paid editor.
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I realize that this is going well beyond the conflict of interest statement we usually suggest of cultural professionals editing Wikipedia.
Dominic, first of all congratulations!
I am employed at the Ministry of Culture in Italy and I occasionally contribute to Wikipedia content where I clearly have a conflict of interest (e.g. museums or archaeological sites where I work), so can I ask you to point me to the "conflict of interest statement" that you mention above?
I think your approach is correct, and more transparency can only do good.
Ciao Stefano
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