Paid Editing of Wikipedia: Getting Past "Gotcha" discusses the complex and divisive issue of public relations and advocacy on the world's top reference site. Wikipedia has long dealt with editors with conflicts of interest. But in recent years, the frosty relationship between PR professionals and Wikipedia editors begun to thaw and seek a way forward.
This panel of communications professionals, academics and Wikipedia editors with experience in public relations, marketing, and online culture will debate what paid editing in Wikipedia means by providing a spectrum of views on contributors' neutrality, transparency, and motivations.
We will discuss Wikipedia's history of anonymous paid editing, the recent discovery of a vast network of "fake" accounts, and a landmark statement in 2014 by top global PR firms committing themselves to ethical Wikipedia engagement, marking a significant new chapter in Wikipedia's evolution.
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