Wikipedia Forcing Editors To Disclose If They're Paid

mpicpp sends word that the Wikimedia Foundation is updating its Terms of Use to keep track of editors who are paid for the changes they make. This follows last fall's discovery that a small industry had arisen around public relations firms running Wikipedia editing campaigns for paying clients. The Foundation now says, "If you are paid to edit, you will need to disclose your paid editing to comply with the new Terms of Use. You need to add your affiliation to your edit summary, user page, or talk page, to fairly disclose your perspective. ... Specific policies on individual Wikimedia projects, or relevant laws in your country (such as those prohibiting fraudulent advertising), may require further disclosure or prohibit paid advocacy editing altogether." They add, "undisclosed paid advocacy editing is a black hat practice that can threaten the trust of Wikimedia’s volunteers and readers."

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Re:Transparent Loot

[smittyoneeach]

Transparent loot
While breeze they shoot
Seems as big a win
As visible chin
Burma Shave

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Re:Russian internet brigades

[mjwx]

As has often been said, Hitler fought the wrong war when he headed East, he had much more in common with Stalin than he did with Winston Churchill

Sorry, but this is just parroting propaganda.

Fascism and Communism are polar opposites. Don't get confused that they're both authoritarian. Hitler and Stalin had very little in common. Hitler original plan was to go to war with the Soviet union in 1942, they honestly never expected Western Europe to go to war over Poland.

The Nazi's considered western European people to be of similar aryan stock to Germany, it was the Slavs and Russians they considered to be untermesh (spelling, German isn't my strong point).

However in the 50's (McCarthy era) Fascism was falsely equated to Communism in order to justify communist witch hunts against their political enemies that had nothing to do with communism but were in fact, extremely capitalistic.

However in reality, fascism is extreme right-wing authoritarianism. State control via capitalist means (I.E. the state owns everything around you), communism is extreme left-wing authoritarianism, state control via socialist means (I.E. the State controls you). Hitler had very little in common with Stalin from a philosophical stand point although it should be noted, they were both abused as children and had trouble forming relationships with women... but so do most psychopaths. So psychopathy is about all they have in common and putting two psychopaths in a room together is like putting two rabid dogs into the same cage.

Also this is why the worlds most successful economies have been mixed. Neither capitalist nor socialist, rather the applying the appropriate methodology where it's needed.