stephen, i think it would be wiser to tackle this technically. let mark a contribution as "COI" when pressing save. the community will make something out of it, you can be sure. if a person makes too often errors not marking that an edit is COI, then its easy to make a community backed rule to ban the person from the projects for not complying. one can also make a rule that only 5% of a persons edits are allowed to be COI and the editor numbers would go up.
but i understand, your job is in the legal department, so you are only allowed to produce text, not code, which is a pity :( but please do not forget, if you write one line of text, there are thousands who read it, and it might be used in legal hassles - which is not at the core of the "free" in the wikimedia vision and mission. rupert. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Stephen LaPorte <slapo...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > Hello all, > > We are asking for community input on a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia > Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing. The amendment is currently > available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese, and > we welcome further translations and discussion in any language. > > For your review, you may find the proposed amendment and background > information here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment > > Please join the discussion on the talk page: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment > > Thank you for sharing your thoughts and comments. > > -- > Stephen LaPorte > Legal Counsel > Wikimedia Foundation > > *For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia > Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer > for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal > capacity.* > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia > community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
