On Sep 17, 2012 8:34 PM, "Chris Keating" chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
Though I should clarify a few issues. 4 different issues have been raised
in this thread and it's important that they don't get conflated.
- "Paid editing"
To respond to Tom Dalton's original point, there isn't any specific
Wikimedia UK policy on "paid editing". We have never actively decided not to have one, we just don't - this is really the Wikipedia community's call not ours.
Whether it is written down anywhere or not, we do have a very clear policy that WMUK does not pay people to edit. Obviously, that isn't what is happening here - the government of Gibraltar is paying Roger, not WMUK - but the reasons behind that policy still apply.
Conflicts of interest are not, in themselves, a problem, but they must be carefully managed. One of the key ways of managing a conflict is to have very clear demarcation. It must be very clear in what capacity you are acting at any given time. I don't think there is sufficient demarcation between Roger's roles as a trustee, a Wikipedia volunteer and a Gibraltar contractor. The confusion is primarily between the latter two, but that should still be of concern to the chapter.