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Commercial benefits for editors of Capital Market Wiki

The terms of the GNU Free Documentation License allow editors and others to gain economic advantage from this wiki.
The larger and more successful this wiki, the greater the potential commercial advantages to its editors.
Note: Not all material on this site is available under the GNU Free Documentation License, especially material in the Research namespace and some images licensed under Creative Commons non-commercial use terms. Check specific license terms for a page or image before using elsewhere.

T he fact that Capital Market Wiki is a non-profit organization does not preclude editors and patrons from benefiting monetarily from participating in the project. The content of the main encyclopedia is released under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), which means that everyone is free to copy and redistribute articles, with or without modification, either commercially or non commercially. This license preserves for editors of this wiki a way to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others. This license has two important commercial consequences:

1. An editor's wiki reputation is preserved and can be enhanced. Under the GFDL, anyone who republishes an article from this wiki must cite the source. On this wiki, we have a "Main contributors" link in the sidebar of each page, so readers can quickly discover the principal editors of that article, although editors remain anonymous. The sidebar also links directly to the main contributors own pages, which provide information on their capabilities and the terms and conditions under which their services may be obtained. Because of this wiki's policies of truth, peer review, and disciplined focus of Capital Market Taxonomy, the commercial value of a reputation on this wiki is enhanced in terms of employment or contracting by financial institutions. An editor's "wiki reputation" can be marketed internationally using this wiki's built-in job opportunity network, which is open to all editors, without cost.
2. Anyone may reformat and add to the information in this wiki for commercial republication. For example, articles in this wiki do not give opinions about the merit of securities. However, there is a market for such opinions and someone could repackage content from this wiki to include buy/sell/hold recommendations or ratings, re-selling the content on a subscription basis[Under the GFDL agreement, such repackaged material would also be subject to the same GFDL terms and conditions and the original source must be cited. There can be any number of such derivative works.]. Also, content could be reformatted and sold as a RDF feed that supplies terminals at trader's desks at financial institutions. Of course, to be able to do this effectively, one would need to be closely involved with the information technology that supports this wiki, which is the reason that we have IT Patrons and why we support Repackaging Services.

All commercial advantages that might be derived from this wiki are based on economic benefits purposely incorporated in the wiki design and on the open source nature of its content, and do not benefit the wiki directly, in any way, as it is a non-profit organization. Commercial activities related to this wiki take place outside of and separate from the wiki organization, directly between editors and/or third parties and are not subject to approval or intervention of the wiki organization, other than with respect to use of content under the GNU Free Documentation License terms and conditions.

Collaborative teamwork leverages editors' benefits

By working together in building this wiki, editors multiply the commercial value of their demonstrable skills in the field of financial analysis, while creating the broad network of relevant connections needed to market them to best advantage.

A nyone can start a financial blog to try to show off knowledge of investments and capital markets. However, working alone is an extremely difficult way to build the volume of original content needed to attract attention on the World Wide Web.

There are thousands of financial blogs, most of which are transitory, with a wide variation in quality and seriousness of content. The only way to get much attention is to join with others, and to get the right kind of attention, you must be able to find enough "others" with similar seriousness of purpose. Capital Market Wiki is designed so that serious researchers, students, investors, and financial analysts can come together in a publishing venture for mutual benefit. The strict focus of the encyclopedia on finance and capital markets, and the discipline of Capital Market Taxonomy not only serve to produce a product of quality and merit — which reflects favorably on all editors — but also discourages those that are not similarly motivated from participating.

Other economic benefits

B eyond commercial advantages that editors and others might derive from this wiki, there are other economic benefits:

Education

Because this encyclopedia embraces a Capital Market Taxonomy that calls for disciplined, serious research, digging into original sources, using OSINT tradecraft, editors — even experts with years in the field — gain valuable insights into these markets by getting involved in this project.

The system of academic patrons and research assignment templates combines educational benefits with networking to take advantage of the opportunity network that helps students in placement upon graduation.

Research assignment templates, a special feature of this wiki, help university teachers set up projects on capital market topics for students. These assignment templates are a powerful learning tool, with networking features that can enhance a student's placement opportunities on graduation — and possibly even provide extra income during college. University professors that use this system may qualify as academic patrons with the privilege of placing free advertisements to offer research consulting services in the "prizes, services, jobs" link in the sidebar, or sponsoring repackaging services.

Institutional research

Managers of financial research departments of securities and commodity brokers, banks and credit institutions, and insurance carriers may use the systems of this wiki to improve the coverage, depth of analysis, and effectiveness of the research function, with no investment and easy start-up, while reducing costs. The wiki system is designed to increase staff morale, cut operating costs, facilitate recruiting, allow working from home or on the road, and improve the quality of output. See: Help:Capital Market Wiki and the Securities Research Department.

Connections

Knowing the right people at the right time is a key to success. Whether you need to find someone to get a job done, or whether you yourself are looking for a job, this project is designed to build opportunity networks of editors, with verifiable competence, linked by semantic systems that are freely available to collaborating editors.

Informed investment decisions

Investors who do their own research are able to make decisions based on facts they've checked themselves and on information they've examined first hand. Editors of Capital Market Wiki look to benefit from our built-in investment research communities and from the discipline of Capital Market Taxonomy, and cross-checking of research by fellow editors. Investment advice and puffery are banned and are not welcome in this wiki. When panic or euphoria grips the market, those supported by reliable research can keep a cool head and their own counsel.

Promotion of markets and institutions

Collaborative ethical promotion through a wiki can be less expensive and more effective than paid advertising and traditional marketing. The broad dissemination of free, accurate, unbiased information about financial markets and institutions, has a powerful educational effect on investors and market participants, promoting rapid growth of markets. Capital Market Wiki is a free encyclopedia of international markets, and encouraging economic development is our primary goal. We have an integrated set of systems that provide benefits to institutional participants that are supported by policies on ethical promotion, outsourcing and home-sourcing networks, facilities for recruiting collaborating editors, and even a wiki store.

Cross-generational cooperation boosts the power of the opportunity network.

Join us as a founding editor

C apital Market Wiki was opened to the public in late 2008.

It is an ambitious endeavor, entirely dependent upon volunteers. There are challenges and obstacles, including vandalism, hacker attacks, spammers and simple skepticism. However, the goal is worthwhile.

We know that the people we need as editors, like you, have a lot of other things to do, so we've built special systems into this wiki that provide economic benefits for those with a commitment to and interest in financial markets and who would like to make a permanent contribution that will make the world a better place.

We also have loaded this wiki with technical features not currently available on Wikipedia, such as facilities for spreadsheets, dynamic graphs, a Capital Market Taxonomy and a semantic database.

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Capital Market Wiki is driven by enlightened self-interest, based on use in universities for research projects, by financial institutions to promote markets, by its editors as a job opportunity network, and by investors for collaborative research. The system is bound with semantic systems and Capital Market Taxonomy.

Although this wiki is a non-profit organization, we do need funds to cover operating costs. To finance this wiki, despite our policy of "no advertising", we have plans for viral marketing, long-term institutional grants, and we even sell t-shirts and mugs to cover costs during start up. There are no pre-conditions to become an editor of Capital Market Wiki. We need volunteers from all countries, with all languages, from the widest variety of educational, professional, and cultural backgrounds. We need students, investors, market professionals, academics, stay-at-home moms, busy executives and retirees. We need computer nerds, accountants, lawyers, bankers, market regulators, employees of stock exchanges and clearinghouses, and students of all these fields. We need experts in commodities from tin to soybeans, and people who work in every corner of capital markets, from front office marketing to arcane clearing and settlement functions. We need day traders and long-term investors, chart-readers and readers of Graham and Dodd, quants and employees of hedge funds.

All editors are anonymous — the only credential you need is the wiki reputation you build here. Any amount of collaborative effort is appreciated and welcome, whether it be correcting the spelling of one word, or the writing of many well-researched articles.

Furthermore, you write your own ticket as to how you want to help and how much time you want to spend. You can proof read and criticize articles, make policy suggestions, check the research of others, engage in discussion on talk pages, write original pieces, re-organized articles that need improvement, become a capital market taxonomist, design templates, specialize in financial analysis of issuers, take photographs of stock exchange buildings, make diagrams of option schemes, and a million other things. It's up to you.

As an editor, you don't have a boss. No one tells you what to do and no one "owns" this wiki — but all editors, in a sense, are owners. What you get out of this effort, depends on what you put in, but it would be reasonable to expect educational benefits, useful contacts, better investment results, and the satisfaction of knowing that you are helping to improve the world economic system.

Please join us, by registering today.

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See also

• Ethical promotion
• Outsourcing and opportunity networks
• Policy on advertising
• Collaborative investment research communities
• Viral marketing and recruiting editors
• Using our wiki store to produce promotional materials