In an internal investigation codenamed "Orangemoody," Wikipedia's staff has banned 381 "sockpuppet" accounts it suspects of being controlled by the same group of users practicing a paid-for editing policy.
Wikipedia is the Internet's most worshiped source of information, providing important (and sometimes moderately accurate) details on a very wide variety of topics and domains.
Its pages are a treasure chest for students, experts, researchers, journalists, and every housewife around the globe.
Unfortunately, for this very same reason, the service has been the target of PR companies that offer to edit certain pages dealing with topics, individuals, and companies, for a "moderate" fee.
One such example is the case of consulting firm Wiki-PR, which abused this tactic in 2013, and Wikipedia admins had to eventually ban hundreds of dummy accounts.
Wikipedia is the Internet's most worshiped source of information, providing important (and sometimes moderately accurate) details on a very wide variety of topics and domains.
Its pages are a treasure chest for students, experts, researchers, journalists, and every housewife around the globe.
Unfortunately, for this very same reason, the service has been the target of PR companies that offer to edit certain pages dealing with topics, individuals, and companies, for a "moderate" fee.
One such example is the case of consulting firm Wiki-PR, which abused this tactic in 2013, and Wikipedia admins had to eventually ban hundreds of dummy accounts.
