Loomio
Sat 23 May 2020 12:36PM

Approving payments

LS Leo Sammallahti Public Seen by 10

Here articles that have been requested, approved and written are paid from the fund.

MSL

M Sena Luphdika Mon 25 May 2020 1:43AM

Hi @Jonathan Bean and @Leo Sammallahti , thank you for the reminder of the disclosure.
From what I've found in Wikipedia, we only need to disclose in one of three places:

I translated the English template of paid contributor because like @Jonathan Bean said, Indonesian Wikipedia doesn't have the template for paid contributor disclosure.

That being said, I thing it is safe to also add it in the Talk page of the article, so thank you @Jonathan Bean for adding it.

Sorry for the late reply because in Indonesia we are in a long holiday 馃槅

JB

Jonathan Bean Mon 25 May 2020 3:35PM

It is not required but strongly suggested to disclose paid contributions in all 3 forms, as they want to keep track of these things and the template helps them do this because it has to be highly regulated to keep the neutrality of the encyclopedia, otherwise Wikipedia loses its reputation for being neutral, I know they are not always neutral on some topics.

Thanks for translating the paid contributor template and adding it to the talk page.

Thanks for putting a link to the loomio group in your profile and adding the article to the list of paid contributions.

I think following the rules and suggestions is the best policy and respecting their culture.

Thanks, this is going to scale pretty fast if we do it right.

MSL

M Sena Luphdika Mon 1 Jun 2020 1:48AM

Thank you so much for everyone involved in this fund, especially @Leo Sammallahti for encouraging me and my friends to translate the article to our language and also @Jonathan Bean that makes sure this program will be welcomed in Wikipedia by following the disclosure policy and culture.

I also want to inform that I've already received the money for the translation.
Thank you again to Leo for the quick process.
Hopefully this initiative will bring more articles to new audiences. 馃憤馃憤