stephen,
i think it would be wiser to tackle this technically. let mark a contribution as "COI" when pressing save. the community will make something out of it, you can be sure. if a person makes too often errors not marking that an edit is COI, then its easy to make a community backed rule to ban the person from the projects for not complying. one can also make a rule that only 5% of a persons edits are allowed to be COI and the editor numbers would go up.
but i understand, your job is in the legal department, so you are only allowed to produce text, not code, which is a pity :( but please do not forget, if you write one line of text, there are thousands who read it, and it might be used in legal hassles - which is not at the core of the "free" in the wikimedia vision and mission.
rupert.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Stephen LaPorte slaporte@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hello all,
We are asking for community input on a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing. The amendment is currently available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese, and we welcome further translations and discussion in any language.
For your review, you may find the proposed amendment and background information here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment
Please join the discussion on the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendme...
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and comments.
-- Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation
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