Thanks for this Jacob.
Would you please address Legal's approach to the following scenario: a
company advertises Wikipedia editing services for clients, and there is no
disclosure of paid editing by an editor employed by or affiliated with the
company on Wikipedia. (In other words, a company is obviously not
following the Terms of Use).
In my view, this is a situation where I would think that Legal should start
a discussion with that company, and if those discussions fail to yield a
change in behavior, Legal should then make a public statement indicating
this, perhaps on the page you recently posted under a section entitled
something like: "Companies that advertise Wikipedia editing services that
have no disclosures on Wikipedia". If a company starts to disclose then of
course the listing could be modified.
This is something that editors ~could~ do, but as the ToU are issued by the
WMF, it would seem more appropriate for WMF to do.
But I am interested to hear Legal's perspective.
Thanks
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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