[Wikimedia-l] Paid editing language wide

[Samuel Klein]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 September 2012 13:17, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest_editing for a
> > placeholder.
>
> Just for the record, there's a difference between paid editing and conflict
> of interest editing.  One can easily have a conflict of interest without
> receiving any financial remuneration.
>

And you could be paid to edit without having a conflict of interest.  Some
wiki-friendly donor could set up an anonymous fund to pay stipends to
people to edit wikipedia for a year.  funded grad students in wiki studies
are close.

Sam