Talk:Terms of use/Archives/2018
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Reasons for the 2018 Terms of Use
Hello, dear collegues! Can the Foundation adopted a new Terms of Use (Attn: The Foundation's General Counsel)?:
- Current version:
7. Licensing of Content Text to which you hold the copyright: When you submit text to which you hold the copyright, you agree to license it under:
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (“CC BY-SA”)...
- New draft (since 2018?):
7. Licensing of Content Text to which you hold the copyright: When you submit text to which you hold the copyright, you agree to license it under:
CC-BY-SA-3.0 is oldest (since 2012) license for text. «When/if the plan to update our license to 4.0 happens, then it will be fine» (User:Crow). Russian OTRS team working with CC-BY-SA-4.0 for text since 2014 year. Innovative news sites working too on CC-BY-SA 4.0 int, ex: https://klops.ru/ , etc. I will be glad to your new WMF document (Terms of Use). Best Regards, — Niklitov (talk) 15:10, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Paid contributions by business owners?
Hi, I've posted a question at the conflict of interest talk page at English Wikipedia. It's in regard to the applicability of the paid editing disclosure requirement to owner/operators of businesses or professionals who are not employees, but regularly carry out the marketing and promotional activities for their own business. The Terms of Use and FAQ specify "any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation", where "compensation" is "an exchange of money, goods, or services". This would not seem to apply to such people, since the promotional editor and the "employer" are the same, and there is no direct quid pro quo payment in exchange for their contributions, but rather an expectation of an increase in their sales and the value of their equity. On the other hand, there seems to be unanimous agreement by those who have commented that this is in fact paid editing. Is there an intention to limit the definition to people who are hired to promote a business? Or would it apply to someone promoting their own business? If anyone has any insights or answers, it would be appreciated, thanks. --IamNotU (talk) 01:53, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
- A small business owner (for example), would expect to receive compensation from customers as a result of promoting their business. --Pi zero (talk) 22:56, 21 October 2018 (UTC)