Microsoft Hires Someone To Influence a Wikipedia Article
Guess it goes to show how important Microsoft feels a good article in Wikipedia is worth.
The full story is here and after reading it I don’t really see that Microsoft did anything wrong.
Microsoft felt IBM had written some stuff about them on Wikipedia and asked Rick Jelliffe to edit the article. They had agreed that Microsoft would not see the edits until after they were online.
Another words Microsoft was not trying to tell Jelliffe what to write, they only wanted a third party to correct the article.
January 24th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Here’s an interesting article on the ongoing Microsoft/Wikipedia Neutral Point of View Debate
http://microsoftisawesome.blogspot.com/2007/01/microsoft-pays-editors-to-improve.html