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Microsoft has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse today after it offered to pay an Australian blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced web encyclopedia site.

While Wikipedia is known as the encyclopedia that anyone can tweak, founder Jimmy Wales and his cadre of volunteer editors, writers and moderators have blocked public relations firms, campaign workers and anyone else perceived as having a conflict of interest from posting fluff or slanting entries.

So paying for Wikipedia copy is considered a definite no-no.（想死啊？）
“We were very disappointed to hear that Microsoft was taking that approach,” Wales said.

沒有人 pay 我，我為甚麼要去改 wiki 的條目？

Update: Wikipedia editors are again considering to delete the shocklog entry. Interesting remark is this context is their suspicion of ‘foreign language’ blogs being involved as references. But who is foreign in this case? English for those write Dutch? Or Dutch for those know only English? Interesting to see how Larry Singer’s Citizendium is putting pressure on Wikipedia to get rid of ‘neologisms’ and barbarian
non-Anglo knowledge… Best, Geert

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An editor has nominated the article Shocklog for deletion, under the Articles for deletion process. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn’t believe it satisfies Wikipedia’s criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the nomination (also see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Your opinions on why the topic of the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome: participate in the discussion by editing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shocklog. Add four tildes like this ˜˜˜˜ to sign your comments. You can also edit the article Shocklog during the discussion, but do not remove the “Articles for Deletion” template (the box at the top of the article), this will not end the
deletion debate. Jayden54Bot 13:37, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

seemingly a violation of Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms Cornell Rockey 02:00, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Merge with Blog, as a “Shocklog” is a type of blog. Flakeloaf 04:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Delete Lacks sources demonstration sufficient use to satisfy WP:NEO. Sources consist of a couple of foreign-language blogs and an on-line Master’s thesis. Need published sources complying with WP:RS
–Shirahadasha 04:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Delete, basically a neologism, and an imprecise one at that. Is Stile Project a “shocklog”? Lankiveil 05:16, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

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On 17 Jan 2007, at 11:54 AM, Geert Lovink wrote:

(dear nettimers, together with students of the masters-of-media blog at the university of amsterdam i have been working on a wikipedia entry about so-called shock logs or shock blogs. it is been an interesting < ...>

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