<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks, Johanna!<div><br></div><div>We've also come across instances of government intelligence agents as well as activists editing the encyclopedia on political events topics in the Oxford Internet Institute's workshops in the Middle East. It's interesting to consider motivation and conflict of interest in broad terms. After all, what are "good" motives vs "bad" ones? There seem to be so many grey areas...</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Johanna Niesyto wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p>hi heather </p><p>here u find also a collection of discussions in en-wikipedia, also including an article case:<br>
<a href="http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Umgang_mit_bezahltem_Schreiben/Diskussionssammlung#section_2">http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Umgang_mit_bezahltem_Schreiben/Diskussionssammlung#section_2</a></p><p>you are right it is the top of an iceberg and at the same time a conflict about wikipedias self-perception.</p><p>von hier & dort gesendet</p>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><div>On Feb 24, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Johanna Niesyto wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>hi everybody,<br><br>i am following the wp-paid-editors-discussions </div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Do you know where these are happening these days? I found discussions around Bamkin and Klein's "outing" (e.g. <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/" target="_blank">http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/</a>) really interesting, especially since it seems like the tip of a very large iceberg on Wikipedia these days... </div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>with great interest -<br>to me that's a new step that after wikpedia-watchdogs (e.g.<br>wikiscanner) we now see (external) wikpedia-rankings:<br><a href="http://wikipedia-corporate-index.de/rankings" target="_blank">http://wikipedia-corporate-index.de/rankings</a><br>
<br>what do think of these recent developments? just another step of the<br>net economy's differentiation or a crucial question to the<br>wp-communities selfconceptions?<br><br>bests<br>johanna<br><br><br>(fyi: <a href="http://transnationalspaces.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/neue-stufe/" target="_blank">http://transnationalspaces.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/neue-stufe/</a>)<br>
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