Wikipedia admin socks in $700 million paid editing scam

[Kato]

At stake is a $700 million dollar pile of dirty SEO cash garnered by abusing Wikipedia's SEO rankings and Google page dominance.

The list of involved dirty Wikipedia admins includes the "Moriarty" of this SEO linking scheme who actually controls the Vipul Naik network which was formerly the OrangeMoody extortion network.

Like Doyle's fictional Moriarty this low profile admin is cunning, calculative and manipulative with excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty and well capable of possessing a mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities.

This paid editing SEO scam has been going on since at least 2006 and the skims are so large that the Moriarty syndicate purchased 3 dead admin accounts (which were only edited once or twice a year to retain their admin bit) to add to the 17 they already control.

One of these admin accounts has been noticeably active of late in covering up this scam and was activated to suppress this scandal before it attracts wider attention.

The smoking gun ? .. diff, diff

[Strelnikov]

Where did you get the figure of $700 million from? I just saw the thread from Wikipediacritics.


Thank you for the lead!

[Wikipediacritics]

Where did you get the figure of $700 million from? I just saw the thread from Wikipediacritics.Thank you for the lead!

It seems to have spread to Nick Bostrom and is linked to Effective Altruism and transhumanist off-wiki coordination financed by David Pearce. Also follow David Gerard in this mess which reached ANI on 23 April 2016

[Kato]

Where did you get the figure of $700 million from? I just saw the thread from Wikipediacritics.Thank you for the lead!

It seems to have spread to Nick Bostrom and is linked to Effective Altruism and transhumanist off-wiki coordination financed by David Pearce. Also follow David Gerard in this mess which reached ANI on 23 April 2016

And you could also follow WP academics like Anders Sandberg** and employee homage like this Pascal's mugging

And "well" there is the whole Astroturfing thing with the ghost of "Ken Tancwell" ("KenTancwell" on WP and Commons) which involves the billions of dollars of Dustin Moskovitz involving at least 900+ socks with giveaway names like "Meatnerd"

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/u ... ewell.html
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/u ... ewell.html
https://www.fastcompany.com/798966/when ... gets-tough

** who is of course not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Sandberg

[Wikipediacritics]

Tie-ins with Randall James Hamilton Zwinge ("James Randi") promoted Guerilla Skepticism thing https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =768878665
http://web.archive.org/web/201509290022 ... e/psir.htm

The usual bunch of Jimbo talkpage courtiers and fatheads like Smalbones are fatuously discussing this 700 million $cam as the defining moment for the project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 22_editing
with doomsday talk like
Its an obvious existential threat to the character and essence of Wikipedia being a vehicle of free and uncompromised information and history, so giving even an inch is not an option