I will not post actual evidence to this mailing list. My notes as of Sunday are already sent to functionaries and I'm sure they will act on it themselves. As I collect more evidence, I might open a sockpuppet investigation on English Wikipedia anyway if there is enough of it to continue even without personal data, which is just a small part.
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:29 AM, jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Without getting into whether an outing policy exists/applies here, please bear in mind that if redaction is required, it is rather difficult to do it on a mailing list, especially a mailman mailing list like this one.
i.e. Please avoid posting something here which may need redaction.
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 16:00 Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Mario,
I don't think it will be considered harassment if the information is
posted
here. I believe the WP:OUTING applies to the English Wikipedia and this
is
not English Wikipedia mailing list.
Regards,
Isaac
On Jul 22, 2018 5:43 PM, "Mario Gómez" mariogomwiki@gmail.com wrote:
There, is at least, one user that works for Go Fish Digital with a sockpuppet account in English Wikipedia and has denied conflict of
interest
or paid editing disclosure even if he was asked too, since some user was suspicious. Should I send this privately? I don't want to incur in
spurious
ousting/doxxing.
Best,
Mario
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 12:24 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
Go Fish Digital is a company that whitewashes Wikipedia. From its own
site:
The primary platforms that define your online reputation include: [...]
- Wikipedia
[...]
With Online Reputation Management, we work hard to make all of the positive information easy to find. At the same time, we use many different strategies and tactics to diminish the visibility of
negative
content, or in some cases, remove it from the web altogether. The end result is a positive online reputation because when people search your name or brand, they immediately find positive content.
Source: https://gofishdigital.com/online-reputation-management
Wikimedia Foundation Inc. has been working with this company on search engine optimization: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198970. I
have a
few questions about this work.
How was this vendor chosen? Which other vendors were considered?
Why is this work being undertaken? At least the English Wikipedia has
some
of the best search engine results placement of any site on the Web, so
I'm
curious to know who's prioritizing Wikipedia's search engine
optimization
and for what reason.
How is it appropriate for Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to work with a
company
that is, by its own admission, whitewashing Wikipedia? Doesn't this
give
Go Fish Digital a ton of legitimization by now being able to say it
works
directly with Wikimedia Foundation Inc. ("with Wikipedia")?
Is it appropriate to give a company that sells whitewashing Wikipedia services access to private user data, as was done in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192893 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193052? The Wikimedia Foundation
Inc.
legal department apparently approved this access, but I'm curious to
know
why, given the company's role in selling an "Online Reputation
Management"
product. This looks bad to me.
MZMcBride
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