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39°56′23″N 75°36′42″W / 39.939586°N 75.611783°W / 39.939586; -75.611783 (MyWikiBiz)

MyWikiBiz is a wiki directory that allows people and enterprises to write about themselves. The brand began as a service creating Misplaced Pages articles for paying corporations; the founder and owner of MyWikiBiz, Gregory Kohs, was soon blocked from Misplaced Pages. As of September 2012, the MyWikiBiz directory contained over 80,000 pages of content about corporations and individuals. The business is headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

History

Kohs and his sister started the MyWikiBiz venture in Pennsylvania in July 2006, initially as a paid editing service, writing content for inclusion in Misplaced Pages and other community-edited sites. He considered the example of Misplaced Pages's "Reward Board", where interested parties would offer cash rewards or gifts to create or improve Misplaced Pages articles, as indicating his venture was within community standards. MyWikiBiz's prices ranged between $49 and $99 USD for adding entries that conformed to Misplaced Pages's standards and policies. No official Misplaced Pages policy prohibited paid-for contributions. Kohs argued that there were tens of thousands of clearly notable companies and nonprofit organizations unrepresented on Misplaced Pages.

Professor Jonathan Zittrain of the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society discussed the case of MyWikiBiz in his book The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It. Kohs also appeared on Attack of the Show! on January 25, 2007, and discussed MyWikiBiz.

Paid editing issues

Misplaced Pages's Jimmy Wales called the commercialized editing "antithetical" to Misplaced Pages's mission and "absolutely unacceptable" and blocked Kohs' account from editing Misplaced Pages. 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 Misplaced Pages and other GFDL sites. Kohs' company stated that he was committed to write only about notable companies in a Misplaced Pages-like style. The first few weeks that he wrote articles onto his own site saw ten articles transferred to Misplaced Pages that way.

In October 2006 Wales again blocked Kohs from Misplaced Pages, and cautioned any business from using its services. In late October 2006, Kohs formed a partnership to promote and market a wiki-based directory at Centiare.com, after which Kohs moved its contents to MyWikiBiz.com. Heise Online expressed a suspicion that while MyWikiBiz's "attempted corporate infiltration" of Misplaced Pages was discovered, MyWikiBiz was not an isolated case.

See also

• Paid editing on Misplaced Pages

References

1. "Mywikibiz.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
2. Read, Brock (2007-01-24). "Misplaced Pages Blocks a Pay-for-Play Scheme". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
3. ^ Bergstein, Brian (2007-01-24). "Idea of paid entries roils Misplaced Pages". MSNBC/Associated Press. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
4. MyWikiBiz.com (2006-08-08). "MyWikiBiz press release: Misplaced Pages – Open For Business". 24-7 Press Release. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
5. Metz, Cade (2008-02-06). "Misplaced Pages ruled by 'Lord of the Universe'". The Register. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
6. Peer, Mathias (2006-08-24). "Misplaced Pages-Artikel, die man kaufen kann (Misplaced Pages articles that you can buy)". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 2008-08-20.
7. Noisette, Thierry (2006-08-11). "Misplaced Pages, nouvel enjeu de relations publiques (Misplaced Pages, a new issue of public relations)" (in French). ZDNet. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
8. ^ Zittrain, Jonathan (2008). The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It. Yale University Press. p. 140. ISBN 0-300-12487-2.
9. dvinson (2007-01-15). "Attack of the Show: Blog, January 15, 2007". Attack of the Show: Blog. G4TV. Retrieved 2007-10-15. Gregory Kohs, webmaster for mywikibiz.com and Molly Wood, the Executive Editor from C-Net join us tonight at 7PM to discuss!
10. Wales, Jimmy (2006-08-09). "MyWikiBiz". WikiEn-L. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
11. "Why the idea of paid entries annoys Misplaced Pages". Mail & Guardian. November 9, 2007. Retrieved June 3, 2013. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
12. "Centiare on the heels of Misplaced Pages". press release. 2007-01-05. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
13. Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Bill McDaniel, and W. William D. McDaniel, ed. (2008). Semantic Digital Libraries. Springer. p. 58. Retrieved June 3, 2013.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
14. Jellen, Richard (2007-03-31). "Edit-War um Friedrich Merz (Edit War on Friedrich Merz)" (in German). Heise Online. Retrieved 2008-08-20.

External links

• MyWikiBiz

• Internet companies of the United States
• Commerce websites
• Organizations based in Pennsylvania
• Companies established in 2006
• Privately held companies based in Pennsylvania
• Companies based in Pennsylvania