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by coldtea 4485 days ago
Some on Wikipedia are also on a payroll. Including in articles about commercial products and companies, but even more so in political articles.
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mattp123 4485 days ago
About that - I'm making an FF addon[1] that will alert you to users that self-report being paid by a third party, as required by a recently proposed ToS amendment[2].

[1] https://github.com/patriotpie/wiki-sanitize [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Paid_contributi...

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sillysaurus3 4485 days ago
Really? That's very interesting. Do you have a link or further info about that?
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nl 4485 days ago
There's a Wikipedia page about it[1]. More broadly, this Google search[2] will find plenty more incidents.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Congressional_staff_edits_...

[2] https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Staffer+edited+Wikipedia

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