Microsoft Attempts to Hire Blogger to Edit Wikipedia

[WildCowboy]

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Microsoft Corp. landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site.

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Microsoft acknowledged it had approached the writer and offered to pay him for the time it would take to correct what the company was sure were inaccuracies in Wikipedia articles on an open-source document standard and a rival format put forward by Microsoft.

Jimmy Wales doesn't seem too thrilled...

 

[mkrishnan]

I thought Apple invented the Reality Distortion Field™. I think they should sue.

 

[SMM]

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Jimmy Wales doesn't seem too thrilled...

This is a bigger story, WildCowboy. I am a former trained professional in disinformation. MS has moles and trolls on this site. I have posted about it and most act like I am some kind of lunatic. I am including some links. I think the strategy and evidence is very clear to those who can discern it.

http://www.gabston-howell.org/swl/index.php?/categories/4-microsoft

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9314284615.html

http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/12/microsoft-vista-laptop-bloggers.html

http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/editorial-blogs/davey-winder/2444/does-microsoft-bribe-bloggers.thtml

 

[WildCowboy]

I was actually just reading this article on the broader topic of reward-based Wikipedia editing. Interesting stuff.

 

[phungy]

I guess Mr. Gates does have enough money to do whatever he wants...

 

[thedude110]

Information is capital. Or post-capital, if you can swallow it. Eventually, an economic system has to implode via its lack of ethics, right? If it makes just enough room for art, it's got enough room for a gathering place, anyway.

 

[Swarmlord]

I guess Mr. Gates does have enough money to do whatever he wants...

Mindboggling when you think about it.

 

[twoodcc]

i'm actually in my Marketing class right now, and this was just brought up in class.

I sure hope Microsoft is punished....

 

[Kwyjibo]

i'm actually in my Marketing class right now, and this was just brought up in class.

I sure hope Microsoft is punished....

Punished by who? Wikipedia? I mean what they did was unethical for sure ... but I mean we'd be fools to think that this kind of stuff didn't go on. Its just like some reviews on amazon that seems overly generous and short ...

 

[clevin]

i'm actually in my Marketing class right now, and this was just brought up in class.

I sure hope Microsoft is punished....

u can't do that, if this operation is punishable, wiki can just close down their whole website.