Yes, that is very open and forthright.

"I have not and will not make edits on articles or materials related to the institutions where I work, have worked, or may conceivably work at in the future"

If interpreted broadly that would be a difficult statement to live up to (do articles about alumni count? how about topics where the institution has a research strength? is she committing to never use AWB or similar tools to make minor fixes in bulk to whole categories of article which could include affiliations?)

Toby

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Roberta Wedge <roberta.wedge@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Re COI for academics: I've recently come across Melodee Beals, a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Her userpage strikes me as an exemplar of one way for academics to engage with Wikipedia. She has given thought and space to making a declaration of interests, spelling out how she intends to handle affiliations and her understanding of self-promotion.

Declaration of interest: Dr Beals is the colleague of a friend of mine.

Roberta

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On 30 October 2014 10:58, Toby Hudson <tobyyy@gmail.com> wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/University_of_Sydney_Wikibomb

This is going to be big.  There are 39 signed up (mostly female academics and students), but we are expecting nearer 100.

How Wikipedians can help:

We will have a decent number of experienced editors on site, but we will be stretched. Anyone who can provide online support 03:00-07:00 UTC tomorrow (Friday) would be much appreciated. Please add your name to the project page with a note so that we know who we can call on. Here's some ways you can help:

  1. Any sandbox started by a wikibomb participant should be added to Category:University of Sydney Wikibomb 2014 so that we can all find it.
  2. Monitor These Related Changes to look out for editors having trouble.
  3. Write (kind) sandbox_talk page comments if you see promotional language. It seems that some participants are intending to write articles about their friend/colleague/boss. The organizing team now all understand how much COI editing is discouraged, but I'm afraid academics are harder to herd than cats. We are at least trying to ensure that everyone declares their employer on their userpage, and declares any COI they have on the article talk.
  4. Assess articles' readiness to move into mainspace (also post a note on the talk page). Experienced Wikipedians will do these moves, but for COI and general stress relief, it would be good to have third party eyes over it.
  5. Categorize, prettify, wikidatify, wikiprojectify ({{WP Australia}}{{WP Biography}} etc) any articles that do make it into mainspace. We will not have time to concentrate on any of these things.
  6. Ping me (99of9) or another involved Wikipedian if you spot any problems.
  7. Publicise on Twitter (#Wikibomb) with a link to the project page

Thanks for helping!

Toby/99of9


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