Wikipedia Scandal: High Profile Users Allegedly Involved In Paid-Editing

An anonymous reader writes "A new Wikipedia scandal: two high profile users, one of them board member of Wikimedia UK seem to have been caught doing edits for personal profit. It was also discovered that they ran an SEO business related to Wikipedia. Quoting: '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's main page "Did You Know" feature and the resources of Wikipedia's GLAM WikiProject (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) initiative to pimp his client's project. Bamkin's current client is the country of Gibraltar.'"

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Gibraltar is not a country.

[solferino]

Bamkin's current client is the country of Gibraltar.

Gibraltar is not a country, it is a British overseas territory.

no such thing as Wikimedia Foundation UK

[Submarine]

There is no such thing as "Wikimedia Foundation UK". There is "Wikimedia UK" (officially "Wiki UK limited"). The Wikimedia Foundation is a US-based organization that runs the servers that host Wikipedia and handles the associated administrative and financial matters. Wikimedia UK is just a local users' organization, also known as a "chapter".

By writing "Wikimedia Foundation UK", the article writer seemed to imply that Roger Bamkin was a powerful person regarding the management of Wikipedia / Wikimedia sites. This is not the case.

Re:...... so?

[Anonymous Coward]

Useful links:

The wiki page where the complaint was first raised:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Potential_abuse_of_DYK

Jimmy Wales talk page where the argument is happeninng now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales

Discussions on Wikipedia critics forum:

http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=914

http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=926