Wiki Project Med/COI

Draft COI Policy

Board members are required to disclose any conflicts of interest. This shall be done on a yearly basis or as soon as the conflict of interest occurs, whichever is sooner. It is the expectation of the organization that board members will not have significant conflicts of interest that could potentially put the organization in disrepute.

For instance board members may not accept money or other personal rewards for promotional editing pertaining to businesses, individuals, medications, health conditions, etc from organizations with conflicts in the subject area. They may not run or be involved with paid editing firms even if such firms disclose their paid editing activities.

Being paid as a Wikipedians in Residence by an organization that shares the goals of the Wikimedia movement is however permissible if appropriately disclosed. Being connected with other movement entities, government organizations, academic publishers, or other health related NGO is also permissible.