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Re: MyWikiBiz

by Ed Sanders :: Rate this Message:

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Dabljuh wrote:

> On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:38:24 -0400
> Jimmy Wales <jwales@...> wrote:
>
>> He agreed not to edit Wikipedia articles when he is being paid to write
>> by the subject of the article, and to help the companies he works with
>> understand that it is probably not a great idea for them to edit their
>> own articles as well.  He will write articles and post them on his own
>> site, under the GNU FDL, and to ask trusted prominent and independent
>> Wikipedians to add the articles, on their own independent judgments of
>> the merits of the articles.
>
> So in essence, you talked him out of editing Wikipedia?
> That is incredible! I understand this was basically his business model
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His business model still works if the material he writes get used on
Wikipedia - the agreement just means now he won't upload it unless we
approve it first... as far as I understand it.
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