[Wikimedia-l] Paid editing language wide

[Florence Devouard]

Hello


Is there a place (I looked on meta and saw nothing) where the situation 
with regards to paid editing or more generally the practices toward 
declaration of conflict of interest in all linguistic versions of 
Wikipedia summarized ?

For example, I more or less know that the English version requires the 
user to not create an account with the name of his company; requires to 
basically mention when there is a potential COI; and ask preferably to 
edit talk pages rather than directly.

I more or less know that the French version does not seem to care if 
accounts feature a company name (or rather a derivative version of the 
company name); that indicating a potential COI is better; but that 
directly editing the wikipedia page is fine.

I have no idea how other languages deal with this.

I was interviewed today by a "journalist" from a historian publication 
and she asked me what was the status of this for a couple of other 
languages, in particular Spanish and Italian (I guess she knew these 
languages, which I do not). I realized I had no idea

If there is a Spanish and/or an Italian person around, I would be happy 
to know.

But more generally, would not it be interesting to gather somewhere (uh, 
meta) the current practices with regards to COIs ?

Florence