Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities"

[Matt Campbell]

Glad to hear it.

 Original message 
From: James Heilman  
Date: 09/01/2015  10:31 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Wikimedia Mailing List  
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam 
targeting small businesses and celebrities" 


We have a number of discussions ongoing with respect to what measures we

should take to address the issue of promotional paid editing generally and

to prevent this from happening again



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse.2FOrangemoody



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Doc_James/Paid_editing



-- 

James Heilman

MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian



The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine

www.opentextbookofmedicine.com



As of July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation

My emails; however, do not represent the official position of the WMF

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[Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities"

[Matt Campbell]

ICYMI...
 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/wikipedia-rocked-by-rogue-editors-blackmail-scam-targeting-small-businesses-and-celebrities-10481993.html
 
Guess no organization can be completely safe vs. a few bad actors exploiting 
their positions of trust in it.  But with so many people acting as voluntary 
editors, it's hard to see how the WF can protect itself from exposure when 
stuff like this happens.  I mean, some of the victims are sure to sue the WF, 
since where there's money and a criminal offense, there's usually lawsuits.  
But worse than that is the black eye it gives the WF.
 
No winners in this mess.  Sad day all around.
  
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