On Sep 17, 2012 8:34 PM, "Chris Keating" <chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> Though I should clarify a few issues. 4 different issues have been raised in this thread and it's important that they don't get conflated.
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> 1. "Paid editing"
> To respond to Tom Dalton's original point, there isn't any specific Wikimedia UK policy on "paid editing". We have never actively decided not to have one, we just don't - this is really the Wikipedia community's call not ours. 

Whether it is written down anywhere or not, we do have a very clear policy that WMUK does not pay people to edit. Obviously, that isn't what is happening here - the government of Gibraltar is paying Roger, not WMUK - but the reasons behind that policy still apply.

Conflicts of interest are not, in themselves, a problem, but they must be carefully managed. One of the key ways of managing a conflict is to have very clear demarcation. It must be very clear in what capacity you are acting at any given time. I don't think there is sufficient demarcation between Roger's roles as a trustee, a Wikipedia volunteer and a  Gibraltar contractor. The confusion is primarily between the latter two, but that should still be of concern to the chapter.