On 8/8/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
The page was created by "Thekohser", and deleted on his request - "There is no such hotel. This article was intended for Sandbox. My apologies." - which is fair enough, we've all accidentally created something in the wrong namespace. I assume it was only ever intended as a fictional mockup.
"Thekohser" is Gregory Kohs, who is a reasonably active editor and seems to have clue a'plenty. He is also the founder of, guess who... http://mywikibiz.com/aboutus.html
The edits for the company seem to be, nicely and transparently, done under User:MyWikiBiz. Look through the contributions - there's nothing hideously bad there.
Paid-for editing is going to happen. We have it being done publicly, cleanly, with standards and with clue. Not sure we've got much to worry about.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Paid for editing has already happened. 'tis a done deal. We have bounties, a reward board, the Encyclopedia Project, wikimoney etc. not to mention whatever isn't publicly recorded on Wikipedia or that I simply don't know about off hand, in addition to MyWikiBiz.
Frankly, we should embrace this. Is not the Linux kernel much the better for the contributions by programmers whose companies have paid them to contribute? Is not Red Hat a pillar of the Free software community for sponsoring the development of so many things? Why not us?
~maru