Why I Created This How to Wiki?
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This is Why.
- As part of my Java teaching for students I created a software many years ago to merge or concatenate pdf documents.
- Later I found out that this software was useful for other people too, and similar products were not available free.
- I decided to promote it on my blog "Codes For Us." But how people could find my blog?
- Later I learned that there were two sites who would allow people to teach how they can do things by themselves: eHow and WikiHow sites. I went there and learned how to write for them and created a link to download my software.
- I noticed that many people, who looked for a free solution, welcome the move and happily downloaded my software.
- After a while the eHow locked its site on the public and in place of my software put a commercial software who had paid them for the promotion.
- WikiHow came ahead and in very friendly way asked me to create a user page and write articles for them and edit and patrol articles of other similar people (like) to me. They said that in this way people could become familiar to my site when they were searching for the producer of the articles.
- I wrote many articles and every day I spent some time on their site, editing patrolling and giving ideas. Gradually I became a Featured Author.
- At this time, they removed my only link to my software and put a paid commercial software in its place.
- I discovered a similar pattern to this for any other article that could be monetised in this way; they would remove the original free advised ideas with commercial products that owner companies had paid for the promotion.
- I stopped to work for them and cloned my articles here.
- See, nerds have created these software such as mediawiki for sharing and disseminating the knowledge in this easy way to create works and edit them, not for profit; well, say, for a legitimate profit, at least. Easily one can create such a monument.
- So far my articles there have created more than 5,300,000 (five point three million) views that might have created tens of thousands dollars revenue for them and they did not allow even one link to my site.
- I understood they exploit the ideas, creativity and hard work of enthusiasts and then they get the profit from the free toils of volunteers.
- They even do not respect the intellectual property of the creator in no way.
- When you create something they consult internally if that article is profitable for them.
- If they admit its profitability, then one of the interns will come and add a "comma" to the text and he becomes a contributor to your work. In this way, it looks as if a group of contributors have created the article and you even do not get an intellectual appreciation, let alone an intellectual right.
- If the article attracts viewers and "Search engine Attraction" their paid interns might completely change what you meant from the beginning in creation of the article. For example you have a recipe for spaghetti Bolognese of your own way of cooking, then they come and change it to egg and chips because they can accommodate some paid links say, to McCain chips! You receive an email that your article has been edited and you become surprised that they have left none of your original work but for a title.
- You cannot change any of the interns edits back to your original work. If you insist, the owner of the company running the Wiki and earning the money comes as arbiter and scares you out of the argument.
- Besides the paid interns, they have a flock of unpaid promoted boot licking trolls who are ready to trash talk you.
