Wikipedia Ramps Up Fight Against Paid Editing

Wikipedia is ramping up its fight against paid editing, a practice that goes against the online encyclopedia's policies and ethics, with a letter directed at Wiki-PR, a company accused of getting paid to edit articles on Wikipedia

The cease and desist letter, sent by the Wikimedia Foundation on Tuesday, accused Wiki-PR and its army of 300 accounts of being a covert PR firm that creates and edits articles for money, a practice called "sockpuppetry" or "meatpuppetry."

"Agent(s) of your company have engaged in sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry to, among other things, make it appear as if certain articles are written by unbiased sources when in fact those articles are authored by Wiki-PR for money," the letter reads. Read more...