On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:24 PM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm very new to this concept of paid editing. But from what I understood paid editing is allowed, as long as the editors disclose who they are paid by on their talk page or in edit summaries. I understood this to be roughly the idea of the Wikipedian in Residence title. I didn't look this up on purpose, because I wanted to point out this might be a common existing understanding. Am I mistaken? What is the policy?
Different wikis have different policies on paid editing, most have no policy. There is no global policy.
I've been poked to clarify:
Terms of Use[0] prohibit undisclosed paid editing. Local projects may have their own way of interpreting and enforcing this. Local projects can also opt out of this particular prohibition in the Terms of Use.
0. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use