Openpedia.org > Wikipedia warns PR people off (again)

http://davedonohue.com [davedonohue.com] I’ve noticed a lot of firms rushing in to create and edit entries, as well as a rising backlash against those entries and PR folks in general in Wikipedia discussions. In the interests of the industry’s reputation amongst the Wikipedia community, I hope people will read those comments, and familiarize themselves with how the discussion of PR and conflicts of interest came to be - Constantin Basturea does an excellent job of summarizing this.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

Computerworld.comhttp://www.computerworld.com [Computerworld.com] Microsoft's Wikipedia PR blunder (and clean keys) - Computerworld ...: offered to pay a developer to make changes to Wikipedia pages points to problems that can arise when a major Web site is managed by a community of people. On Monday, Australian software engineer and author Rick Jelliffe wrote in a blog posting that Microsoft had offered to pay him as an independent source to make changes to certain Wikipedia entries.

http://blog.basturea.com [Blog.basturea.com] PR meets the WWW » Wikipedia editors discussing PR firms ...: This is not only about using Wikipedia to promote one’s clients - it’s also about accuracy and reputation. As Wikipedia’s readership, popularity, and position in search engines results will grow, companies will become more and more concerned about the accuracy of Wikipedia’s entries and on how their reputation is affected by it, and will not stay idle if the entries on their organization, leaders, or products are inaccurate.

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