[WikiEN-l] MyWikiBiz

Dabljuh dabljuh at gmx.net
Wed Aug 9 20:04:52 UTC 2006


On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:38:24 -0400
Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> He agreed not to edit Wikipedia articles when he is being paid to write 
> by the subject of the article, and to help the companies he works with 
> understand that it is probably not a great idea for them to edit their 
> own articles as well.  He will write articles and post them on his own 
> site, under the GNU FDL, and to ask trusted prominent and independent 
> Wikipedians to add the articles, on their own independent judgments of 
> the merits of the articles.

So in essence, you talked him out of editing Wikipedia?
That is incredible! I understand this was basically his business model



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