"Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities" - Wikimedia-l

2 Sep 2015


      We have a number of discussions ongoing with respect to what measures we
should take to address the issue of promotional paid editing generally and
to prevent this from happening again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Wikipe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Doc_James/Paid_editing
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

As of July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation
My emails; however, do not represent the official position of the WMF