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| name = MyWikiBiz
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| foundation = 2006
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| founder = Gregory Kohs
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| location_city = ]
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| location_country = United States
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| key_people = Gregory Kohs (])
| revenue =
| company_slogan = Author Your Legacy
| url = {{url|mywikibiz.com}}
| screenshot =
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| alexa = {{Increase}} 652,765 ({{as of|2015|8|04|alt=August 2015}})<ref name="alexa">{{cite web|url= http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mywikibiz.com |title= Mywikibiz.com Site Info | publisher= ] |accessdate= 2015-08-04 }}</ref>
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| registration = Optional (required to edit pages)
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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; the founder and owner of MyWikiBiz, Gregory Kohs, was soon blocked from English Misplaced Pages.<ref name="chron">{{cite journal|url=http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1831/wikipedia-blocks-a-pay-for-play-scheme|title=Misplaced Pages Blocks a Pay-for-Play Scheme|journal=]|date=2007-01-24|last=Read|first=Brock|accessdate=2008-08-27}}</ref>

==History==
Kohs and his sister started the MyWikiBiz venture in July 2006, as a paid editing service, writing content for inclusion in ] and other community-edited sites. Kohs charged between $49 and $99 USD for articles.<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>
At the time, though it was widely known that English Misplaced Pages was used by corporations and public relations firms, such contributions were often hidden, only to be discovered later.<ref name="welt">{{cite news|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)|newspaper=]|language=German|first=Mathias|last=Peer|date=2006-08-24|accessdate=2008-08-20}}</ref><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 co-founder ] expressed opposition to the idea of a paid editing service.<ref name="msnbc" />

A few days after MyWikiBiz was launched, the site's user account was blocked by Wales on the grounds of "paid editing on behalf of customers". It was one of the few such blocks personally by Wales in English Misplaced Pages's history.<ref name="zittrain" /> Wales viewed the problem as one of "conflict of interest and the appearance of impropriety arising from editors being paid to write by the subjects of the articles".<ref name="zittrain" /> He and Kohs reached an agreement, under which Kohs could create "Misplaced Pages-like" articles on his site and that they could then be "scraped" to English Misplaced Pages by English Misplaced Pages editors. The agreement soon unraveled, and Kohs was blocked from editing English Misplaced Pages.<ref name="msnbc" /><ref name="zittrain" />

In his book ''The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It'', ] said that Wales believed that MyWikiBiz had been "spamming Misplaced Pages with corporate advertisements rather than 'neutral point of view' articles", but also that MyWikiBiz persuaded some Enhlish Wikipedians to lower objections to an article merely because of its source.<ref name="zittrain">{{cite book|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408031121/http://yupnet.org/zittrain/archives/16#48|url=http://yupnet.org/zittrain/archives/16#48|archivedate=8 April 2008|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=0-300-12487-2}}</ref>

''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' said "it's hard to feel too bad for MyWikiBiz," and that "if the encyclopedia is serious about gaining acceptance from academe, surely it has a vested interest in dissuading companies from paying to improve their presence on the site."<ref name="chron" />

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> after which Kohs moved its contents to MyWikiBiz.com.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=VsZOIOerAa0C&pg=PA58&dq=Centiare+to+MyWikiBiz.com&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wkOtUbG2MvDlyAGr74HAAg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Centiare%20to%20MyWikiBiz.com&f=false |title=Semantic Digital Libraries |page=58 |editor1=Sebastian Ryszard Kruk |editor2=Bill McDaniel |editor3=W. William D. McDaniel |year=2008 |accessdate=June 3, 2013 |publisher=Springer}}</ref>

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