Hi MarioGom, Thanks for outlining these concerns. The Legal Team is currently looking into the issue and has reached out to SurveyMonkey for additional information. I will provide an update here when the matter is resolved.
Best, Elena -- Elena Lappen (she/her) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation > On May 11, 2019, at 8:40 AM, Mario Gómez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Since the WMF has an ongoing partnership with SurveyMonkey [1][2], the WMF > could review their possible abuse of Wikipedia ToS and, if confirmed, > require them to cease this activity. > > SurveyMonkey's possible use of undisclosed paid editing service was already > brought to your attention on this mailing list in July 2018. SurveyMonkey > was by then suspect of hiring Go Fish Digital to edit their Wikipedia > article. > > In November 2018, the article started receiving edits from EastWestern [4], > an account that was blocked from Wikipedia for sockpuppetting and whose > behavior is very close to the Go Fish Digital sockpuppet farm uncovered > last year. Suspicious activity resumed after the block by another user, who > is pending a sockpuppet investigation. > > Given the WMF relation to SurveyMonkey, is it possible to do something > about this? > > [1] > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/January_2018_Fundraising_Banner_Survey_Privacy_Statement > [2] > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/January_2019_Fundraising_Banner_Survey_Privacy_Statement > [3] > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg30648.html > [4] > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SurveyMonkey&offset=&limit=500&action=history > > Best, > > MarioGom > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
