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'''MyWikiBiz''' is a [[wiki]] directory [[business]] that at one time created [[Wikipedia]] articles for paying [[corporation]]s.  The current site at MyWikiBiz.com allows people and business enterprises to author their own legacy on the Internet, using a [[semantic web]] version of the famous [[Directory:Wikimedia_Foundation/MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software.  The MyWikiBiz directory contains over 30,000 pages of content about corporations and individuals.  

'''MyWikiBiz''' is a [[wiki]] directory [[business]] that at one time created [[Wikipedia]] articles for paying [[corporation]]s.  The current site at MyWikiBiz.com allows people and business enterprises to author their own legacy on the Internet, using a [[semantic web]] version of the famous [[Directory:Wikimedia_Foundation/MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software.  The MyWikiBiz directory contains over 34,000 pages of content about corporations and individuals.  

According to its main page:

According to its main page:

== Business propositions ==

== Business propositions ==

MyWikiBiz suggests several reasons for contributing content to its directory.  Unlike traditional encyclopedias, editors who are legally responsible for the entity they are writing about may "protect" their advocate point-of-view, without fear of someone else altering their content.  Editors also earn money at MyWikiBiz by authoring a popular page, embedding [[Google]] AdSense ads within it, and keeping 100% of the revenues generated from that page's advertising.  Page owners may also advertise and sell their products and services on MyWikiBiz. Contributors who are more interested in the community-edited dynamic of an encyclopedia like Wikipedia can do so with any topic that is not about a legal entity, such as "Jupiter" or "chess".  

MyWikiBiz suggests several reasons for contributing content to its directory.  Unlike traditional encyclopedias, editors who are legally responsible for the entity they are writing about may "protect" their advocate point-of-view, without fear of someone else altering their content.  Editors may also earn money at MyWikiBiz by authoring a popular page, embedding [[Google]] AdSense ads within it, and keeping 100% of the revenues generated from that page's advertising.  Page owners may also advertise and sell their products and services on MyWikiBiz. Contributors who are more interested in the community-edited dynamic of an encyclopedia like Wikipedia can do so with any topic that is not about a legal entity, such as "[[Jupiter]]" or "[[chess]]".  

== History of the site ==

== History of the site ==

=== Paid editing ===

=== Paid editing ===

[[Directory:Gregory J. Kohs|Gregory Kohs]] and his sister started the MyWikiBiz venture in [[Directory:Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] in [[July]] [[2006]], initially as a paid editing service for encyclopedic content for inclusion in Wikipedia and other community-edited sites. Its tiers of service were priced at $49, $79, and $99. Kohs stated his intention to make [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view neutral], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources footnoted] content, and expected the general public to continue altering the articles he worked on. Though no official Wikipedia policy prohibited paid-for contributions, Chairman Emeritus of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] [[Jimmy Wales]] first called the commercialized editing "antithetical".  However, in [[August]] 2006, Wales issued a "mutually beneficial" compromise where he encouraged MyWikiBiz to author and post content on a GFDL-compliant section of MyWikiBiz.com, which could then be scraped by non-paid, independent editors into Wikipedia and other GFDL sites. Over the course of late 2006, though, [[finance|financial]] [[conflict of interest|conflicts of interest]] became regulated under Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflicts_of_interest]  In [[October]] 2006, Wales aggressively reversed his earlier compromise with MyWikiBiz, banning the account from Wikipedia and cautioning any business from using its services.

[[Directory:Gregory J. Kohs|Gregory Kohs]] and his sister started the MyWikiBiz venture in [[Directory:Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] in [[July]] [[2006]], initially as a paid editing service for encyclopedic content for inclusion in Wikipedia and other community-edited sites. Its tiers of service were priced at $49, $79, and $99 per article. Kohs stated his intention to make [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view neutral], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources sourced] content, and expected the general public to continue altering and improving the articles he created. Though no official Wikipedia policy prohibited paid-for contributions, Chairman Emeritus of the [[Directory:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] [[Directory:Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]] first called the commercialized editing "antithetical" to Wikipedia's mission.  However, in [[August]] 2006, Wales issued a "mutually beneficial" compromise where he encouraged MyWikiBiz to author and post content on a GFDL-compliant section of MyWikiBiz.com, which could then be scraped by non-paid, independent editors into Wikipedia and other GFDL sites. Over the course of late 2006, though, [[finance|financial]] [[conflict of interest|conflicts of interest]] became regulated under Wikipedia's new conflict of interest policy.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflicts_of_interest]  In [[October]] 2006, despite there being no reason to do so, Wales aggressively reversed his earlier compromise with MyWikiBiz, banning the account from Wikipedia and cautioning any business from using its services.

=== Centiare alliance and takeover ===

=== Centiare alliance and takeover ===