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Launched in 2006, the MyWikiBiz enterprise offered to author encyclopedic articles about companies and products. These articles could be published under terms of free, copyleft licenses, in hopes that other free content sites (like Wikipedia) could copy them for wider use.
Prices were set at $49 for short, stubby articles; $79 for longer articles with citations and infoboxes; and $99 for more robustly researched articles with categories and external links, as well as posting on various free user-generated directories. The business was given detailed coverage in Professor Jonathan Zittrain's book, The Future of the Internet and how to stop it.
Phase I: Full disclosure
Over the span of August through October of 2006, MyWikiBiz created content for about 10 articles that found their way to Wikipedia. Three of them were disclosed to the "powers that be" at Wikipedia, which led to two of them being deleted, and the remaining one being savaged by Jimmy Wales, with an administrator later plagiarizing the original work and trying (unsuccessfully) to claim it ab initio as his own.
The other seven articles that were not disclosed??? All are beautifully residing to this day within Wikipedia, thoughtfully tended to by the editing community.
Phase II: Going underground
Therefore, we at MyWikiBiz have concluded that content decisions at Wikipedia are not at all about "the quality of the contribution", but rather, "the provenance of the contribution".
If you are thinking about publishing content within Wikipedia that you suspect may come under fire for "conflict of interest" reasons, you are advised to contact MyWikiBiz for advice and possible assistance.
Despite a superficial "permanent ban" from Wikipedia, we have researched, written, and published on Wikipedia numerous paid articles, throughout 2008, 2009, and 2010. By using sockpuppet editor accounts and open, public Wi-Fi hotspots, Wikipedia articles can easily be written and published in exchange for payment -- even despite a community "ban" on editing Wikipedia in this fashion. It can be done, folks. You simply can't ever breathe a word of it. That's the secret.
Contact MyWikiBiz's paid editing service
For a confidential discussion, contact:
- Email: ResearchBiz (at) gmail (dot) com
- Phone: (484) NEW-WIKI
