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post Thu 25th January 2007, 4:22am
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Ida of paid entries roils Wikipedia
The Columbian, WA - 20 minutes ago
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN. AP Technology Writer. BOSTON (AP) -- When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported ...
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post Thu 25th January 2007, 6:43am
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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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post Thu 25th January 2007, 7:39am
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Microsoft in Wikipedia doghouse
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Boston - Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse on Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced web ...
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post Thu 25th January 2007, 8:33am
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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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post Thu 25th January 2007, 9:49am
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Idea of Paid Entries Roils Wikipedia
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN. AP Technology Writer. BOSTON // When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies ...
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post Thu 25th January 2007, 9:29am
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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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post Thu 25th January 2007, 10:20am
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Is It OK To Be Paid To Write For Wikipedia?
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By Brian Bergstein, AP Writer. Boston — When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical ...
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post Thu 25th January 2007, 9:25am
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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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post Thu 25th January 2007, 10:53am
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Idea of Paid Entries Roils Wikipedia
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post Thu 25th January 2007, 10:54am
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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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post Thu 25th January 2007, 11:31am
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Idea of Paid Entries Roils Wikipedia
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post Thu 25th January 2007, 10:57am
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Microsoft's Wikipedia PR blunder (and clean keys)
Computerworld, MA - 1 hour ago
I'll pay you to read IT Blogwatch: in which Microsoft is accused of paying others to fiddle with Wikipedia. Not to mention how to clean your keyboard in a ...
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post Thu 25th January 2007, 8:23am
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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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post Thu 25th January 2007, 1:00pm
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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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post Thu 25th January 2007, 1:53pm
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Microsoft hit for paying to correct Wikipedia entries
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN. AP. BOSTON - Microsoft Corp. got slammed Wednesday by bloggers and the founder of the Wikipedia after it was revealed that it had hired ...
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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.

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post Thu 25th January 2007, 3:26pm
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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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post Thu 25th January 2007, 4:24pm
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Idea of Paid Entries Roils Wikipedia
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Gregory Kohs sits by a computer screen at a public library in Media, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. Last year Kohs launched Wikipedia Review, a service that ...
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post Thu 25th January 2007, 4:37pm
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Microsoft Offer Raises Question: What's Wrong With Accepting Money to Post on Wikipedia?

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post Thu 25th January 2007, 3:15pm
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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.

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