Wikipedia Changes Disclosure Rules for Paid Editors
Wikipedia's credibility rests on its ability to remain transparent and it has developed a community-driven solution that still allows paid editors to contribute.
Wikipedia is the top website run by a non-profit that gets top worldwide traffic, according to Alexa rankings. With its position as a non-profit, open-source repository of knowledge, Wikipedia has to maintain the image that it is free from outside influence. The site hopes to provide some clarity to how paid editors must behave with a recent change to the ToS.
General counsel Geoff Brigham outlines the changes in a post on the official Wikimedia blog: “Editing-for-pay can be a source of such bias, particularly when the edits are promotional in nature, or in the interest of a paying client.
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