I am interested to learn if WMF management or the board has discussed taking legal action against companies that offer services to edit Wikipedia and that have no on-Wiki presence disclosing their edits (in en-WP at least) per the Terms of Use. We all know the companies and their websites, where they use the Wikipedia name, etc. I have looked and never found disclosure by any of those companies in en-WP. I have looked and found no public evidence of WMF legal engaging with these companies, other than Wiki-PR.
Some en-Wiki editors recently identified a long-term paid editor and brought the matter to ANI: thread is here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=757170150#Earflaps_-_accusations_of_being_an_undisclosed_paid_editor_and_a_sock_puppet. This brought this whole thing to mind, and is something I have been wanting to ask about.
Three questions:
Has this been discussed, and if so, what has/have the outcomes been?
Also, is there budget for WMF legal to take action against such companies?
If not, would you all please consider that?
Thanks.