[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Paid editing

[David Gerard]

On 11/03/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:

> Comments, questions, and suggestions are very welcome. From the
> discussion here, I know this isn't the only possible solution to the
> problem, so if you feel like this is going off in completely the wrong
> direction, I'd encourage (and probably contribute to) alternate approaches.


It's not quite accurate - not on en: but on other Wikipedias, they're
often push-started by people paid to write articles, e.g. by the
institute of the local language. I can see this sort of paid writing
not being a COI if the person is careful not to edit anything related
to their sponsor. I mention this as a real-life example that happens
now with no-one having any objection to it.


- d.