Wikipedia scores a key victory against paid-editing services using cybersquatting legislation

The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit responsible for Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based projects, has gained a small but notable victory in its fight to stamp paid-editing on its flagship online encyclopedia. To recap, the Foundation recently changed the terms of Wikipedia editing, requiring anyone who has been paid to edit articles to disclose this. Editors must make this clear through a statement on their profile page, as part of the edit summary, or on the talk page alongside the relevant edits. The reason? Well, it seems that many companies have been paying to have information about their services...

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