{"id":4288,"date":"2012-09-19T09:45:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T16:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disruptionblog.com\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2012-09-19T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T16:45:48","slug":"corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia-internet-media-cnet-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/09\/19\/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia-internet-media-cnet-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia | Internet &amp; Media &#8211; CNET News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned Wikipedians raised the alarm Monday that two trusted men &#8212; one a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK, the other a respected Wikipedian In Residence &#8212; are allegedly editing Wikipedia pages and facilitating front-page placement for their pay-for-play, publicity-seeking clients.Jimmy Wales is not pleased.It began this week when an interesting discussion started on the DYK &#8220;Did You Know&#8221; discussion page.Roger Bamkin, trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK, whose LinkedIn page describes him as a high-return-earning PR consultant, appeared to be using Wikipedia&#8217;s main page &#8220;Did You Know&#8221; feature and the resources of Wikipedia&#8217;s GLAM WikiProject Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums initiative to pimp his client&#8217;s project.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57514677-93\/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia\/\">Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia | Internet &amp; Media &#8211; CNET News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned Wikipedians raised the alarm Monday that two trusted men &#8212; one a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK, the other a respected Wikipedian In Residence &#8212; are allegedly editing Wikipedia pages and facilitating front-page placement for their pay-for-play, publicity-seeking clients.Jimmy Wales is not pleased.It began this week when an interesting discussion started on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/09\/19\/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia-internet-media-cnet-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia | Internet &amp; Media &#8211; CNET News<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}