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Paid editors must provide links on their Wikipedia user page to all active accounts at websites where they advertise, solicit or obtain paid Wikipedia-editing services. If such an account is deleted or removed, any corresponding links on the Wikipedia user page must remain visible for at least one week. [3]
The money raised from all sources would pay for the many technical staff necessary to maintain the MediaWiki software on the servers. Opt-in ads would allow the Wikipedia fork to do many things currently not possible due to the lack of enough Wikimedia Foundation funds to spread around to over 200 Wikipedias in many languages.
Paid editing, broadly construed, is any editing where an editor is being compensated in some way, e.g. employees and contractors for money, students earning a grade and course credit such as Wikipedia:School and university projects, recognition from social and business associates, Wikipedians at Wikipedia:Bounty board, in-trade compensation, etc.
And then you learn that the firemen even go to some of the city's poorest quarters, begging for money, making people fear they may have to do without a fire service if they don't give money today – even though the service has already surpassed its own revenue year goals by nearly $50 million.
The Facilitator: Silver seren 16 April 2012 Wikimedia announcements, Wikipedia advertising, and more! 26 April 2010 License update, Google Translate, GLAM conference, Paid editing 15 June 2009 Report of diploma mill offering pay for edits 12 March 2007 AstroTurf PR firm discovered astroturfing 5 February 2007 Account used to create paid ...
On Wikipedia, we resolve disagreements through discussion and consensus, not by throwing money at the problem or scoring other means of gaining power. If you still disagree with consensus, it's more productive to move on and accept the decision, rather than trying to buy out the website. See Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.
Love of money has been said to be "the root of all evil" Corporations and certain individuals have special interest in Wikipedia for its marketability and popularity. SEOs, PR, & marketers love Wikipedia because on major search engines, it is usually (if not always) on the first page of a search, and they want to exploit that.
A business owner writes a Wikipedia article about his or her business. The business owner definitely has a conflict of interest, but is not considered to be a paid editor because he or she is not paid by an employer to write the article. If the business owner pay other people to write articles, they would be paid editors.