Florida Swiss chapter in turmoil: Paid-editing controversy← Back to ContentsView Latest Issue17 May 2016 Gabriel Thullen, a Swiss Wikipedian who contributes mainly to fr.WP. He is a board member of the Swiss chapter. Gender Gap workshop in Geneva, 9 March 2016
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There's a related blog post by Gabriel Thullen at http://wikistrategies.net/french-paid-editing/ summarising some of the discussions in the French Wikipedia. --Andreas JN466 02:39, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Our response to this should be 3-fold:
1) Chapters, affiliates, and user-groups should all include a strict no-paid-editing-for-officers-and-employees clause in their by-laws.
2) The WMF should have the same type of rule for all chapters, etc in their rules.
3) The English-language Wikipedia should add a clause to the policy Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure prohibiting paid edits by officers and employees of chapters, affiliates and user groups. Smallbones(smalltalk) 18:27, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I don't agree with the board level aspect.I believe that it is possible to be a paid editor and be a very good faith member of the community, if the paid editor very transparently discloses, doesn't edit directly, proposes high quality content on Talk pages (very well sourced, very neutral, including negatives), and doesn't BLUDGEON discussions. In other words, is truly clueful. This is possible.Somebody like that could be a great board member and there should be no bar to them running, especially if they have clearly disclosed and the voters would be aware of their paid editing when they vote.The employees of Racosch Sàrl were not like that, at all.