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'''MyWikiBiz''' is a ] directory that allows people and enterprises to write about themselves. The brand began as a service creating ] articles for paying ]s, which hibernated when the owner of MyWikiBiz, Gregory Kohs was banned from Misplaced Pages.<ref name="chron">{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1831/wikipedia-blocks-a-pay-for-play-scheme|title=Misplaced Pages Blocks a Pay-for-Play Scheme|publisher=]|date=2007-01-24|last=Read|first=Brock|accessdate=2008-08-27}}</ref> {{As of|2010|2|url=http://www.mywikibiz.com/Special:Statistics}}, the MyWikiBiz directory contained over 55,000 pages of content about corporations and individuals. The business is headquartered in ], ].<ref name="msnbc">{{cite web|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16793247/|title=Idea of paid entries roils Misplaced Pages|authorlink=Brian_Bergstein|last=Bergstein|first=Brian|date=2007-01-24|accessdate=2008-08-20|publisher=]/]}}</ref> The site was founded by Gregory Kohs, a market researcher.<ref name="chron"/>

Professor ] of the ]’s ] discussed the case of MyWikiBiz in his book ''The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It''.<ref name="zittrain">{{cite book|url=http://yupnet.org/zittrain/archives/16#48|title=The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It|page=140|year=2008|publisher=] Press|authorlink=Jonathan_Zittrain|last=Zittrain|first=Jonathan|isbn=0300124872}}</ref> Kohs appeared on '']'' on January 25, 2007, and discussed MyWikiBiz.<ref>
{{cite web |url = http://www.g4tv.com/pile_player.aspx?video_key=14996 |title = Attack of the Show: Blog, January 15, 2007 |accessdate = 2007-10-15 |author = dvinson |date= 2007-01-15 |work = Attack of the Show: Blog |publisher = ] |quote = Gregory Kohs, webmaster for mywikibiz.com and Molly Wood, the Executive Editor from C-Net join us tonight at 7PM to discuss!}}</ref> ] expressed a suspicion that while MyWikiBiz’s “attempted corporate infiltration” of Misplaced Pages was discovered, MyWikiBiz was not an isolated case.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24930/1.html|title=Edit-War um Friedrich Merz (Edit War on Friedrich Merz)|publisher=]|language=German|date=2007-03-31|accessdate=2008-08-20|last=Jellen|first=Richard}}</ref>

==History and Misplaced Pages controversy over paid editing==
Gregory Kohs and his sister started the MyWikiBiz venture in ] in July 2006, initially as a paid editing service, writing content for inclusion in ] and other community-edited sites.<ref name="pr">{{cite web|url=http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=16892|title=MyWikiBiz press release: Misplaced Pages - Open For Business|publisher=24-7 Press Release|date=2006-08-08|accessdate=2008-08-20|author=MyWikiBiz.com}}</ref><ref name="register">{{cite web|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/06/the_cult_of_wikipedia/page6.html|title=Misplaced Pages ruled by 'Lord of the Universe'|last=Metz|first=Cade|date=2008-02-06|accessdate=2008-08-20|publisher=]}}</ref> The idea came from Misplaced Pages’s ], where interested parties would offer cash rewards or gifts to create or improve Misplaced Pages articles.<ref name="msnbc"/> MyWikiBiz’s prices ranged between ]49 and $99 for adding entries that conformed to Misplaced Pages's standards and policies.<ref name="msnbc"/> No official Misplaced Pages policy prohibited paid-for contributions at the time.<ref name="welt">{{cite web|url=http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article147789/Wikipedia-Artikel_die_man_kaufen_kann.html|title=Misplaced Pages-Artikel, die man kaufen kann (Misplaced Pages articles that you can buy)|publisher=]|language=German|first=Mathias|last=Peer|date=2006-08-24|accessdate=2008-08-20}}</ref> Kohs argued that there were tens of thousands of clearly ] companies and nonprofit organizations unrepresented on Misplaced Pages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/internet/0,39020774,39362654,00.htm|title=Misplaced Pages, nouvel enjeu de relations publiques (Misplaced Pages, a new issue of public relations)|publisher=]|accessdate=2008-08-27|date=2006-08-11|last=Noisette|first=Thierry|language=French}}</ref>

Misplaced Pages's ] called the commercialized editing "]" to Misplaced Pages’s mission and "absolutely unacceptable"<ref name="msnbc"/> and blocked Kohs' account from editing Misplaced Pages.<ref name="zittrain"/> However, in August 2006, Wales issued a "mutually beneficial" compromise<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-August/051897.html|title=MyWikiBiz|date=2006-08-09|accessdate=2008-08-20|publisher=WikiEn-L|authorlink=Jimmy_Wales|last=Wales|first=Jimmy}}</ref> where he encouraged MyWikiBiz to author and post content on a ] section of MyWikiBiz.com, which could then be ] by non-paid, independent editors into Misplaced Pages and other GFDL sites.<ref name="zittrain"/>

In October 2006 Wales again banned Kohs from Misplaced Pages, and cautioned any business from using its services, which, according to Kohs, caused MyWikiBiz to go into "]". In late October 2006, Kohs formed a partnership to promote and market a wiki-based directory at Centiare.com,<ref name="msnbc"/><ref name="sbwire">{{cite web|url=http://www.sbwire.com/news/view/9912|title=Centiare on the heels of Misplaced Pages|date=2007-01-05|accessdate=2008-08-20|publisher=press release}}</ref> but when the site's owner pulled the plug on the site, negotiated a transfer of its contents to MyWikiBiz.com

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