AP/Raleigh News & Observer: Microsoft Tries to Tweak
Wikipedia
“Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse after it offered to
pay a blogger to change technical articles on the
community-produced encyclopedia site.“Although Wikipedia is known as the encyclopedia that anyone can
tweak, founder Jimmy Wales and his cadre of volunteer editors,
writers and moderators have blocked public-relations firms,
campaign workers and anyone else perceived as having a conflict of
interest from posting entries. So paying for Wikipedia copy is a
definite no-no…”
O’Reilly XML.com: An Interesting Offer: Get Paid to Contribute
to Wikipedia
“As a regular participant at ISO standards, on and off for more
than a decade at my own expense, it has always frustrated me that
the big companies would not come to the table and make use of ISO’s
facilities. So I am a big fan of the Mass. governments push that
governments should use standard formats only. I know some of the
ODF people, I had some nice emails with the ODF editor over
Christmas for example, and Jon Bosak asked me to join the original
ODF initiative at OASIS (I couldn’t due to time,
unfortunately.)“So I was a little surprised to receive email a couple of days
ago from Microsoft saying they wanted to contract someone
independent but friendly (me) for a couple of days to provide more
balance on Wikipedia concerning ODF/OOXML. I am hardly the poster
boy of Microsoft partisanship! Apparently they are frustrated at
the amount of spin from some ODF stakeholders on Wikipedia and
blogs…”