Wikipedia has suspended at least 10 accounts linked to the public relations firm Bell Pottinger as it investigates allegations of content manipulation.

The online encyclopaedia’s founder Jimmy Wales told the BBC the lobbyists had “embarrassed their clients”.

He said a team of volunteers was looking at possible breaches of conflict of interest guidelines.

Bell Pottinger admitted to editing entries, but said it had “never done anything illegal”.

Mr Wales said he was “highly critical of their ethics”.

via BBC News – Wikipedia investigates PR firm Bell Pottinger’s edits.

Talking about usage, not all the world is using the popular online Cyclopaedia in the same way. Jimmy provided a very striking comparison (see above picture). The Japanese for instance, are very focused on pop culture which is according to Jimmy Wells, “a very important part of Japanese life”. I personally couldn’t imagine it could be any worse than in Britain and France but it is apparently…

via Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales: all nationalities are culturally different – #istrategy (3 of 6) « Marketing & Innovation.