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

: [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

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

2015. 9. 3. 오전 6:00에 "Trillium Corsage" 님이 작성: > > 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

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

ikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Trillium Corsage > > Sent: Wednesday, 02 September 2015 10:58 PM > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' > blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities" > > > > The

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

nt: Wednesday, 02 September 2015 10:58 PM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [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 &g

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

Glad to hear it. Original message From: James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> Date: 09/01/2015 10:31 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting

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

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

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

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

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

ia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > 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 t

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

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: > ICYMI... > > >

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

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

[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