Exhibit 1044

Making a change to our Terms of Use: Requirements for disclosure (Wikimedia blog)

Exhibit 1044 · Institutional statement

Making a change to our Terms of Use: Requirements for disclosure (Wikimedia blog)

If you are paid to edit, you will need to disclose your paid editing to comply with the new Terms of Use.

The Foundation announces a new Terms of Use subsection, 'Paid Contributions without Disclosure', requiring paid editors to disclose their employer, client and affiliation. It says the proposal drew 320,000 words of discussion and 6.3 million views, that the discussion was overwhelmingly supportive, and that individual projects may adopt alternative disclosure policies.

Source: Wikimedia Foundation (General Counsel)
Date: 16 June 2014
Quoted from: "What's changing?" bullet list
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/16/change-terms-of-use-requirements-for-disclosure/
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding INF-3.10: Primary record Volunteer editors banned Wiki-PR on 25 October 2013, and counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation wrote to the firm on 19 November 2013 that undisclosed paid advocacy editing violates the Terms of Use. The Foundation amended the Terms of Use on 16 June 2014 to require paid editors to disclose their affiliation, and on 31 August 2015 it reported that volunteer editors had blocked 381 accounts and deleted 210 articles in the Orangemoody investigation of undisclosed paid advocacy.