Reasonable and considered guidance for editors with conflicts of interest
What I've done here
I'm a 12-year editor (4 as an ip) with about 35,000 edits spread evenly around the project. My main focuses have been
alternative medicine/
pseudoscience,
Middle East current events and historic individuals, copyediting large articles, cleaning up policies, engaging in community policy discussions, preparing help documentation and guides for new users, integrating
COI editors into best practices, assisting new editors in
irc help chat and at
Articles for Creation, working on an educational game called
The Wikipedia Adventure, getting editors free access to proprietary research databases like HighBeam through
The Wikipedia Library, building relationships with organization that share a similar mission like
Turnitin,
Cochrane Collaboration and
OCLC, and helping others develop grants and projects in the
IdeaLab.
Created 15 articles, which have been viewed over 200,000 times.
Participated in Wikimania 2012 in Washington D.C., GLAM Bootcamp 2013 in D.C, GSummit 2013 in San Francisco, Wikipedia Day 2013 in NYC, 2013 Mediawiki Hackathon in Amsterdam, 2013 Wikimania Hong Kong, and 2013 Wikimedia Diversity Conference in Berlin
Gave speeches to groups, companies, and universities about Wikipedia for conflict of interest, gamified learning, library development, medical editing, and education
Conducted an interview series on paid editing for the Signpost called Does Wikipedia Pay?