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Yahoo! News	Mon 22nd January 2007, 10:01pm Post #1
RSS Feed Group: Bots Posts: 5,317 Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am Member No.: 193	Unpaid Schill writes "Over on the O'Reilly Network, there's an interesting piece about how Microsoft tried to hire people to contribute to Wikipedia. Not wanting to do the edits directly, they were looking for an intermediary to make edits and corrections favorable to them. Why? According to the article, it was apparently both to let people know that Microsoft will not 'enable death squads with ... Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...056214&from=rss

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Yahoo! News	Wed 24th January 2007, 2:10pm Post #2
RSS Feed Group: Bots Posts: 5,317 Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am Member No.: 193	"Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced encyclopedia site. Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...012401426NWMSSW

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