{"id":12218,"date":"2015-09-09T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T14:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12218"},"modified":"2015-09-09T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T14:57:26","slug":"wikipedia-editors-uncover-extortion-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/09\/wikipedia-editors-uncover-extortion-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Editors Uncover Extortion Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/culture\/2015\/09\/04\/3697846\/wikipedia-extortion-scandal\/\">Lauren C. Williams<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eastgate\/status\/640372090089152512\">Mark Bernstein<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/culture\/2015\/09\/04\/3697846\/wikipedia-extortion-scandal\/\">\n<p>The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that sponsors but does not operate Wikipedia, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wikimedia.org\/2015\/08\/31\/wikipedia-accounts-blocked-paid-advocacy\/\">announced<\/a> Monday that at least 381 accounts have been suspended for &ldquo;black hat&rdquo; editing, in which editors charge and accept money for &ldquo;to promote external interests.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>What makes Orangemoody different are its guerrilla recruiting efforts and the group preying on new or gullible Wikipedia users. &ldquo;This syndicate went out and looked at articles that were being deleted and went and contacted people who were new and wanted an article but were rejected,&rdquo; Lih said. &ldquo;WikiPR was not recruiting people to our knowledge; people would approach them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Orangemoody editors created false threats and, from separate accounts, members would threaten to delete an article and, through another account, tell clients they can ensure the page won&rsquo;t get deleted for a $30 monthly fee even though most of the pages didn&rsquo;t meet Wikipedia&rsquo;s notability standard, which require the article subject to have extensive media coverage &mdash; that excludes company websites or press releases, or passing mentions, such as in a listicle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren C. Williams (via Mark Bernstein): The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that sponsors but does not operate Wikipedia, announced Monday that at least 381 accounts have been suspended for &ldquo;black hat&rdquo; editing, in which editors charge and accept money for &ldquo;to promote external interests.&rdquo; [&#8230;] What makes Orangemoody different are its guerrilla recruiting efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,388],"class_list":["post-12218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-web","tag-wikipedia"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12219,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12218\/revisions\/12219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}