Wikiversity:Self promotion

Self promotion for financial gain is not allowed at Wikiversity.

Discussions about self-promotion
The following discussion was present on Colloquium in the past. You can view it there by clicking here.

Self Promotion and Gains in Education?
In traditional university and college settings are students, researchers, and teachers allowed to self promote and/or financially gain from there educational and research related endeavors, at least in certain ways? Yes. Right? Might this wiki start to thrive (in terms of amount of Creative Commons content available) if certain forms of self promotion and/or financial gain are allowed or even encouraged for some or all contributors/users?

This may be incompatible with Wikimedia Foundation, in which case this question is irrelevant. Have a good weekend! 🖖 Michael Ten (discuss • contribs) 03:38, 3 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I consider your question highly relevant, and have a simple personal answer with two parts:
 * Yes, self-promotion is an integral part of human nature that the WMF needs to incorporate on one of its wikis. That is why I am so enthusiastic about both the WikiJournal User Group and a Miraheze collaboration.
 * I think we should draw the line at financial gain. I am not against capitalism.  But allowing any form of economic incentive into a wiki would open the floodgates and clutter the effort with efforts to collect money.  I just can't see how we can allow that. I might add that Miraheze has a similar approach towards commercialization.  I urged them to send my university a small invoice for services they rendered at https://wright.miraheze.org and they refused.  --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 07:59, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

More discussion

 * Discussion titled "Connection between business and learning?"
 * Brief discussion about Self promotion on user page (summary: don't do it)