Hello, my name is Chris Harris, and I am an employee of The Motley Fool. For the past year, we have worked with our community to create community-generated stock ratings and analysis with the objective of providing greater breadth of coverage than can be generated by professional analysts. We would like to propose to the Wikipedia community that we include our stock rating data on Wiki pages about publicly traded companies. Our stock analyzing community, CAPS (http://caps.fool.com), uses the collaborative intelligence of our users to rate more than 5,000 companies (more than double the size of many proprietary and subscription-based rating services). Open to the public at caps.fool.com, CAPS collects and weighs the opinions of individual members of our community based on a variety of criteria - how long ago the user voiced their opinion, how accurate their opinions have been in the past, and by how much they beat (or lost to) the market. Each stock in our database that meets our minimum threshold of community coverage is then given a rating based on those factors and the relative comparison of community sentiment across all rated stocks. Each stock is assigned a CAPS Star Rating. 5-Star stocks are the highest rated stocks and 1-Star stocks are the lowest. CAPS stock ratings are updated every 15 minutes during market trading hours based on the latest measure of community sentiment and a weighted averaging of the influence of each community member based on their up-to-the-minute track record of performance. We have a variety of security measures to prevent attempts to manipulate our stock ratings. We feel that the community intelligence that is expressed in each CAPS stock rating would be a great pairing with the community intelligence of Company Wikis. Through this integration we believe that the Foolish community, which is interested in finance and financial education, would be encouraged to become involved in the financial pages on Wikipedia, and the Wiki community would gain a continuous feed of up-to-the-minute relevant financial data to enhance the pages of publicly traded companies. And not only do CAPS ratings provide a solid measure of current financial thinking regarding a broader range of stocks than covered by professional analysts on Wall Street, but they may be predictive indicators as well. While it is too early to make definitive calls about whether or not Star Ratings are predictive, we've found that during the first year since the launch of CAPS, a simulated portfolio that uses the highest rated stocks has outperformed the market by ~66%, and a portfolio of the lowest rated stocks has underperformed by ~110%. You can see these results here: http://g.fool.com/art/ratings/5_AND_1_STAR_Nav.gif In short, we feel like the opportunity to integrate CAPS ratings onto Company Wikis helps both The Motley Fool and Wikipedia to further their mission to provide breadth, depth, and quality of information via community intelligence. We have reviewed with Wikipedia a method for receiving our CAPS stock ratings feed. Ultimately, we would propose to implement this by adding the star rating and a link to "Rate this stock" in the bottom of the Info box on each page. There are several ways in which this could be done; I here are two examples: http://g.fool.com/art/ratings/wikipediaBasic.jpg, and http://g.fool.com/art/ratings/wikipediaEnhanced.jpg <http://g.fool.com/art/ratings/wikipediaEnhanced.jpg> . I look forward to any insight you can offer on the strengths or weaknesses of including ratings in Wikipedia. Thank you, Chris