A 700 million dollar $ Wikipedia paid editing scandal

[Wikipediacritics]

Don't know what to make of all this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... enterprise

6. Vipul should be aware that an outside agency could preliminary assess / value the "gross receipts" of his enterprise as $2.1 * 6,600,000 * 50 ie. about $700 million dollars. So I am not certain if the wider community of paid editors would accept the sort of transparency Vipul displays

These estimates are based on Jonathan E. Hochman's SEO consulting website. also Jehochman of Arbcom fame. $2.1 is the cost per link click, 6,600,000 is the self declared number of page views by sock-master Vipul Naik and 50 is the .number of "spam" links to badsites on a typical Vipul Private Enterprise created article.

If anybody factors in the 1.1% clickthrough rate from Jehochman's data (which Wikipediots can't challenge) conservatively this works out to a $7 million paid editing scandal by a pyramid scheme of paid editors.

[ericbarbour]

Hochman is a bullshit artist. And not an especially good one either.

[Wikipediacritics]

Hochman is a bullshit artist. And not an especially good one either.

They all are, but that's not the point. He is declared on-wiki as an SEO consultant and this is "verifiable expert research".

Anyways that Greybeard thread (SEO abuse cloaked in BS and now being coated with GLAM sauce) has got Jytdog running at full MEDRS throttle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =768985130

first he hats this hilarious ref to Lorennzo Cohen

"I notice that these cancer timelines exclude Asian sources and alternative treatent approaches. This is seriously undue. Perhaps you should include the research of qualified practitioners like Lorenzo Cohen, acupuncture, reiki, yoga etc to balance out these treatments. After all there are so many Chinese and Indians on this planet who read Wikipedia too."

then he proceeds to propose that the sockmaster be let off and all his articles retained, ?? to expand this $700 million Wikipedia ripoff to a $7 billion one ?? Reading through the TL;DR there, Jytdog and the sockmaster Vipul were calling each other to resolve this and the "victim" has now protested

"I cannot agree with the inadequate remedies proposed for these serious breaches, or the way this draft apparently evolved via off-wiki (behind the scenes) talks with Vipul and by excluding his workers."