Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopediasite.
Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site. While Wikipedia is known as the encyclopedia that anyone can tweak, it has blocked public-relations firms, campaign workers and anyone else perceived as having a conflict of interest from posting fluff or slanting entries.
Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopediasite.
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"Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced encyclopedia site.
When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.
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A software engineer has been embroiled in a controversy in which Microsoft stands accused of trying to use him as a paid proxy to finesse entries on the Wikipedia site.
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When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.
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When a blogger reveals that Microsoft proffered pay to fix "inaccuracies" in Wikipedia technical articles, an online backlash erupts. By the Associated Press.
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When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.
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When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.
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When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.
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Microsoft Corp. endured online slams and a rebuke from Wikipedia when the software company offered to pay a blogger to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles.
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Microsoft acknowledged offering to pay a blogger to correct what it said were errors in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
The Wikipedia founder Wednesday said it was a "disappointment" Microsoft Corp. approached a blogger to change technical articles on the online encyclopedia.
"We were very disappointed," says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales at word of Microsoft's offer to pay a blogger to correct what the software giant said are errors in some postings on Wikipedia's online encyclopedia.
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Microsoft Corp. landed in the Wikipedia doghouse this week after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site. While Wikipedia is known as...
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When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder.
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The imbroglio will soon pass, but it raises a bigger question: Why is it so bad to pay someone to write something on Wikipedia? The "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" requires articles to have a "neutral point of view."
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When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.
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When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically. But, why is it so bad to pay someone to write something on Wikipedia?
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When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder.
Boston- When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.
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BOSTON - Microsoft Corp. got slammed Wednesday by bloggers and the founder of the Wikipedia after it was revealed that it had hired a man to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on the online encyclopedia.
Microsoft has recently come under fire by Wikipedia and its founder Jimmy Wales after it was made public that Microsoft was contacting technical writers and asking them to change a Wikipedia entry on Office Open XML to favor the Redmond company. As many of you in the search engine world know, Google and other engines favor [...]
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When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.