On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Different wikis have different policies on paid
editing, most have no
policy. There is no global policy.
<Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
That's not exactly true. All Wikimedia projects are beholden to the Terms
of Use (
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use) which was
recently amended to add:
*Paid contributions without disclosure*
These Terms of Use prohibit engaging in deceptive
activities, including
misrepresentation of affiliation, impersonation, and fraud. As part of
these obligations, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation
with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to
receive, compensation. You must make that disclosure in at least one of the
following ways:
- a statement on your user page,
- a statement on the talk page accompanying any paid contributions, or
- a statement in the edit summary accompanying any paid contributions.
Applicable law, or community and Foundation policies and guidelines, such
as those addressing conflicts of interest, may further limit paid
contributions or require more detailed disclosure.
A Wikimedia Project community may adopt an alternative paid contribution
disclosure policy. If a Project adopts an alternative disclosure policy,
you may comply with that policy instead of the requirements in this section
when contributing to that Project. An alternative paid contribution policy
will only supersede these requirements if it is approved by the relevant
Project community and listed in the alternative disclosure policy page.
For more information, please read our FAQ on disclosure of paid
contributions.
Many wikis do not have policies that supersede this requirement, and so are
subject to it. That said, the ToU does not specify precisely what happens
when someone is found to be in violation of this rule, which I know we
struggle with on the English Wikipedia.
– Molly (GorillaWarfare)