: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam
targeting small businesses and celebrities"
The Orangemoody network seems to have been providing a service: bring the
apparently self-submitted but failed drafts of articles of persons,
organizations, and bus
2015. 9. 3. 오전 6:00에 "Trillium Corsage" 님이 작성:
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> The Orangemoody network seems to have been providing a service: bring the
apparently self-submitted but failed drafts of articles of persons,
organizations, and businesses up to compliance with Wikipedia standards and
get
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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
Why not make it a bit more difficult for them to do their foul play? Maybe
enwiki needs a stricter rule enforcement system for sources in articles
about promotion-worthy entities like living people, existing
businesses/organizations, etc. Just allow only external, reliable, and
confirmable sources
Yes some interesting comment by Trillium. Where the articles mainly
promotional? Yes very. A number of them were copied and pasted from press
releases by the companies in question.
Were a number of the editors from the developing world? Also yes. This is
because they are willing to work for less
The Orangemoody network seems to have been providing a service: bring the
apparently self-submitted but failed drafts of articles of persons,
organizations, and businesses up to compliance with Wikipedia standards and get
them live, then accept a previously negotiated fee. After some months of
This is covered in depth at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Orangemoody
Good job to wikimedians and the WMF!
Regards, Richard.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Matt Campbell wrote:
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