Re: [Wikimedia-l] Where is WMF with pursuing companies that offer paid editing services

Just thought, all the solutions have been directed at the people making money for providing the service has anyone tried contacting the companies paying for the service, if so what was the outcome? On 7 January 2017 at 13:41, Jacob Rogers wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Where is WMF with pursuing companies that offer paid editing services

Hi all, I want to share a few thoughts on the paid editing issue. First of all, we do have the ability to enforce our terms of use. If there are cases where you're encountering a severe problem with paid editing and community efforts are not able to solve it, please get in touch with us via

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog post on "The end of ownership? Rethinking digital property to favor consumers at a Yale ISP talk"

Although it is probably something innocuous such as a recent need to moderate all comments by default, I am disappointed that my comment on the recent Wikimedia blog post which I belive should be at https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/06/rethinking-digital-property-yale-isp/#comment-124999 has

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Where is WMF with pursuing companies that offer paid editing services

I've just crossed https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Paulinapaulina3030 but I must confess I won't do anything out of the wiki (it.wiki) where I am a local sysop. Catching crosswiki paid editing is the most frustrating activity ever, a couple of years ago I wasted two months in