MyWikiBiz.com is a wiki directory of businesses
MyWikiBiz.com - Author Your Legacy
MyWikiBiz is an independent wiki directory business, with a consultancy practice that creates Wikipedia articles for paying corporations. The current site at MyWikiBiz.com allows people and business enterprises to author their own legacy on the Internet, using a semantic web version of the famous MediaWiki software. The MyWikiBiz directory contains over 60,000 pages of content about corporations and individuals.
According to its main page:
MyWikiBiz is a new directory where you can author your legacy on the Internet. We think you are notable, even if Wikipedia has rejected an article about you or your enterprise as being "non-notable". With MyWikiBiz, you create a beautiful, reader-friendly page that will get picked up by Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Search engines.
Business propositions
MyWikiBiz suggests several reasons for contributing content to its directory. Unlike traditional encyclopedias, editors who are legally responsible for the entity they are writing about may "protect" their advocate point-of-view, without fear of someone else altering their content. Editors also earn money at MyWikiBiz by authoring a popular page, embedding advertising within it, and keeping 100% of the revenues generated from that page's advertising. Page owners may also advertise and sell their products and services on MyWikiBiz. Contributors who are more interested in the community-edited dynamic of an encyclopedia like Wikipedia can do so with any topic that is not about a legal entity, such as "Jupiter" or "chess".
History of the site
Paid editing
Gregory Kohs and his sister started the MyWikiBiz venture in Pennsylvania in July 2006, initially as a paid editing service for encyclopedic content for inclusion in Wikipedia and other community-edited sites. Its tiers of service were priced at $49, $79, and $99. Kohs stated his intention to make neutral, footnoted content, and expected the general public to continue altering the articles he worked on. Though no official Wikipedia policy prohibited paid-for contributions, Chairman Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation Jimmy Wales first called the commercialized editing "antithetical". 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 Wikipedia and other GFDL sites. Over the course of late 2006, though, financial conflicts of interest became regulated under Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy.[1] In October 2006, Wales aggressively reversed his earlier compromise with MyWikiBiz, banning the account from Wikipedia and cautioning any business from using its services.
Centiare alliance and takeover
In late October 2006, the owner of Centiare.com reached out to Kohs to form a partnership that resulted in Kohs promoting and marketing the alternative wiki directory at Centiare. This effort gained strength through early 2007, but ultimately began to fade. When Centiare's owner opted to pull the plug on the site, Kohs negotiated a transfer of the entire contents of Centiare.com to MyWikiBiz.com. Thus, MyWikiBiz has undergone a substantial re-branding and re-purpose from its original mission.
Legal info
MyWikiBiz.com is a family-operated enterprise, registered with the State of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, as PA Entity # 600114.
Address
- 489 Lake George Circle
- West Chester PA 19382 US
Contact
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- 302-463-1354
Discussion
In the interest of full disclosure, this article has been extensively edited by the firm's founder, Gregory Kohs. --Thekohser 06:40, 8 February 2008 (PST)
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External Links
- Blogspot: MyWikiBiz.com blog
- Alexa: MyWikiBiz.com
- WHOIS: MyWikiBiz.com
