Hello,
Conflict of Interest (CoI) is a much bigger issue than paid editing. I have seen several serious CoI within Wikipedia where the editors are not strictly paid because they edit WP, nevertheless they do not respect the basic NPOV rules: allowing other opinions to be heard, balancing sources from various organisations (medias / professional / non profit organisations, etc.). I have suggested some basic rules about this on the French WP, but not only they were blankly rejected, but I was barred from mentioning the whole subject. The first step against CoI is making the editors conscious that, because of their profession, background, culture, etc., they may have a bias on a subject.
Yann
2012/7/28 Ocaasi Ocaasi wikiocaasi@yahoo.com:
Hi, I would love feedback about a proposal to help improve the relationship between COI editors and Wikipedia.
The idea is to guide paid/PR/Corporate participants--who follow a list of ethics and best practices--to success in their editing. I've detailed the concept here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI_certification
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts,
Jake Orlowitz Wikipedia editor: Ocaasi http://enwp.org/User:Ocaasi wikiocaasi@yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l