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Granted. I wonder if communities who maintain certain pages become aware over time of accounts known or strongly suspected to be associated with interested ins
by rkagerer 7y ago
Granted. I wonder if communities who maintain certain pages become aware over time of accounts known or strongly suspected to be associated with interested institutions. Per Wikipedia policy anyone paid to make contributions must disclose the fact (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations) but I'm not sure how vigilantly that's enforced. It would be interesting if Wikimedia released a transparency report about this, or even if organizations themselves did so (i.e. "here's a dump of all our social media activity last year").
- ailef 7y agoThis page might be interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-of-interest_editing_on_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-of-interest_editing_o... It lists several cases that have been discovered of accounts editing Wikipedia for PR purposes or similar.