[tagname] Ten Interesting News of the Day: Payment for Wikipedia Entries

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Payment for Wikipedia Entries

The individual who is solely in charge of the publication where anyone can post what they think is worth writing about is not bugging about allowing entries that were paid for. The case on hand was when Microsoft tried to pay someone to rewrite a material posted about the company that it thought lacks technicality. The problem of doing so according to Wales who in charge of the publication is it will not be neutral, which means what a paid writer would submit is publicity, not a pure opinion that is not influenced by anything. Another individual named Koh who saw the lack of material about big businesses started what he called MyWikibiz where he will post material that he will write for big businesses that are willing to pay him and that got him a stern refusal from Wales who said when the volunteer editors encounter material that sounds like a publicity stunt it will be deleted. Others are saying monitizing Wikipedia to an extent might not do it any harm.





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