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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Wikipedia blocks 381 sockpuppet accounts

Wikipedia has blocked up to 381 user accounts on the English version of its website for creating pages that are considered to be both promotional in nature and deliberately disingenuous in terms of content.
The online encyclopedia also revealed that its investigation, codenamed Orangemoody, had discovered that in addition to generating new pages, some of the users had also been modifying existing pages for commercial gain.


Wikipedia blocks 381 sockpuppet accounts

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