Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

Commenting in my personal capacity, on English Wikipedia we have this community curated list off paid editing companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PAIDLIST Not sure if the foundation keeps an internal list. Some of the companies regularly change the names they are operating under.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

Thanks for sharing, Greg. As it proves to be quite hard to filter out this kind of companies, it must be even harder for affiliates that don't have the WMF infrastructure at hand. I can imagine there exists some kind of 'blacklist' of companies that the WMF doesn't want to work with for this kind

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

"On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 00:55, MZMcBride wrote: > It appears that Go Fish Digital has whitewashed its own site, removing > "Wikipedia" from its list of "primary platforms that define your online > reputation" at . But still, on:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

Gregory Varnum wrote: >The Wikimedia Foundation entered into a short-term contract with Go Fish >Digital to conduct a search engine optimization (SEO) audit on Wikipedia. >They were contracted to provide information needed by the Audiences >department to improve how our sites communicate with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

Thank you for the update! On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 4:19 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you to everyone that has provided thoughtful and constructive input > on this discussion, and to the volunteers who are investigating the > possible policy violations. We have some additional

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

On 28 July 2018 at 03:19, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Thank you to everyone that has provided thoughtful and constructive input > on this discussion, and to the volunteers who are investigating the > possible policy violations. We have some additional information on this > vendor relationship and on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

Hello, Thank you to everyone that has provided thoughtful and constructive input on this discussion, and to the volunteers who are investigating the possible policy violations. We have some additional information on this vendor relationship and on steps being taken that we believe will be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

I have gathered more evidence and opened a sockpuppet investigation, omitting any parts involving personal data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/BurritoSlayer Personal data sent to functionaries-en@ is still relevant to verify some details, but I think that it is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

On 23 July 2018 at 14:50, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Just a quick note that the Foundation will be replying to this soon. However > the people involved were participating in Wikimania and currently traveling - > so it may take us a few days to collect the information necessary for an > informed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

I will not post actual evidence to this mailing list. My notes as of Sunday are already sent to functionaries and I'm sure they will act on it themselves. As I collect more evidence, I might open a sockpuppet investigation on English Wikipedia anyway if there is enough of it to continue even

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

Without getting into whether an outing policy exists/applies here, please bear in mind that if redaction is required, it is rather difficult to do it on a mailing list, especially a mailman mailing list like this one. i.e. Please avoid posting something here which may need redaction. On Thu, Jul

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

Hi Mario, I don't think it will be considered harassment if the information is posted here. I believe the WP:OUTING applies to the English Wikipedia and this is not English Wikipedia mailing list. Regards, Isaac On Jul 22, 2018 5:43 PM, "Mario Gómez" wrote: There, is at least, one user that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

Just a quick note that the Foundation will be replying to this soon. However the people involved were participating in Wikimania and currently traveling - so it may take us a few days to collect the information necessary for an informed response. Thank you everyone for your patience. -greg

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

Mario Gómez wrote: >There, is at least, one user that works for Go Fish Digital with a >sockpuppet account in English Wikipedia and has denied conflict of >interest or paid editing disclosure even if he was asked too, since some >user was suspicious. Should I send this privately? I don't want to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

I sent initial research notes to functionaries-en@ with evidence of potential undisclosed COI by Go Fish Digital employee(s). The actual scale of it would require quite more research as well as CheckUser. Best, Mario On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:23 AM, Pine W wrote: > I'd like to distinguish

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

I'd like to distinguish between *monitoring* Wikipedia for changes that could affect PR, which is fine (so long as they don't put unreasonable loads on WMF's technical infrastructure), and *editing* Wikipedia in a way that breaks any number of community rules and/or the WMF TOS. If they were

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

I concur, this seems to be a clear violation of our TOS. Vito 2018-07-22 20:34 GMT+02:00 Mario Gómez : > Actually, it took just a couple of hours to find: > > * Two obvious Go Fish Digital sockpuppets. > * One article with high amount of evidence of COI / paid editing. > * A few other articles

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

Actually, it took just a couple of hours to find: * Two obvious Go Fish Digital sockpuppets. * One article with high amount of evidence of COI / paid editing. * A few other articles with possible COI / paid editing. * Possible links to multiple big sockpuppet farms that were already blocked.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

There, is at least, one user that works for Go Fish Digital with a sockpuppet account in English Wikipedia and has denied conflict of interest or paid editing disclosure even if he was asked too, since some user was suspicious. Should I send this privately? I don't want to incur in spurious