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Cash-for-kindness scandal rattles Wikipedia
Asher Moses
March 12, 2008
THE toughest two weeks of the career of the Wikipedia co-founder,
Jimmy Wales, just got tougher, with a former chief scientist at one of
the world's biggest technology companies claiming Mr Wales traded Wiki
edits for donations.
Jeff Merkey, a former computer scientist at Novell, claims Mr Wales
told him in 2006 that for a substantial donation from Mr Merkey, he
would edit his Wikipedia entry - which included details of lawsuits
involving Mr Merkey including one brought by Novell alleging
misappropriation of trade secrets - to make it more favourable.
Mr Merkey made a $US5000 donation in 2006 and the edit history for his
Wikipedia entry showed that, about the same time, Mr Wales changed the
entry after wiping it out and ordering editors to start over.
Mr Merkey's claims were published in a statement on a Wikipedia
mailing list. On the same mailing list, Mr Wales called the allegation
"nonsense".
The claim is the most damning yet against Mr Wales, who was last week
accused by a former Wikipedia executive of improperly using the
non-profit organisation's funds for his own lavish recreation.
Danny Wool, effectively Mr Wales's right-hand-man for two years before
he left the donor-supported Wikimedia Foundation last year, said Mr
Wales had tried to claim the cost of a visit to a Moscow massage
parlour and expensive bottles of wine.
Earlier, a former girlfriend, Rachel Marsden, leaked messaging
transcripts purporting to show Mr Wales using his influence to
improperly change Ms Marsden's Wikipedia entry so he could continue
"f------ [her] brains out".
Mr Wales, who is going through a divorce, publicly dumped Ms Marsden
via a statement on the online encyclopedia, leading her to retaliate
by releasing the transcripts and auctioning some of his clothes on
eBay.
On the Wikipedia mailing list, Mr Wales said he would "never offer,
nor accept any offer, whereby a donation would buy someone special
editorial treatment in the encyclopedia".
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