Paid PR Scandal Erupts At Wikipedia

HardOCP News · Sep 19, 2012

Raise your hand if you didn't see this coming. To be honest, the most shocking part of this story is that stuff like this hasn't happened more often.

Concerned Wikipedians raised the alarm Monday that two trusted men -- one a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK, the other a respected Wikipedian In Residence -- are allegedly editing Wikipedia pages and facilitating front-page placement for their pay-for-play, publicity-seeking clients. Jimmy Wales is not pleased.

SkribbelKat · Sep 19, 2012

Jack Hammer · Sep 19, 2012

I don't think the rest of us are surprised either.

bloodhawke83 · Sep 19, 2012

who reads their front page? lol, its not hard enough.

Monkey God · Sep 19, 2012

I think its amusing that Wikipedia thinks it's important enough that anyone cares about this.

blitzkommando · Sep 19, 2012

Monkey God said:
I think its amusing that Wikipedia thinks it's important enough that anyone cares about this.

Even more amusing is that companies are actually paying to do it and expect it to somehow turn them a profit.

Monkey God · Sep 19, 2012

blitzkommando said:
Even more amusing is that companies are actually paying to do it and expect it to somehow turn them a profit.

Well there's no doubt wiki gets a lot of page hits.

Paid PR Scandal Erupts At Wikipedia

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