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Orangemoody editing of Wikipedia
Orangemoody was a conflict-of-interest (COI) editing scam on the English-language version of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. In the scam, participants extorted money from mid-sized business who had English Wikipedia articles about themselves rejected. The scam, nicknamed after the first account uncovered, was Wikipedia's biggest COI scandal at the time,〔 exceeding the scope of Wiki-PR editing of Wikipedia incident in which approximately 250 sockpuppets were found and blocked in 2013.
On August 31, 2015, Wikimedia Foundation announced through its blog that 381 sockpuppet accounts on the English Wikipedia had been blocked for operating an undisclosed paid editing ring. The story was reported by hundreds of English and non-English language news sources, including ''Komsomolskaya Pravda'', ''Le Monde'' and ''Die Zeit''.〔〔〔 The editing was described by various media as "black hat" editors (''Tech Crunch''),〔 "dishonest editing" (''PC World''),〔 "extortion" (''Wired''),〔 a "blackmail scam" (''The Independent''),〔 and "extensive cybercrime syndicate" (''ThinkProgress'').〔
==History==
In 2015, the English Wikipedia blocked 381 accounts, many of them suspected of being sockpuppets of the same people, after a two-month investigation launched by Wikipedia editors. More than 200 Wikipedia articles created from the accounts were deleted.〔
Wikipedia's resulting investigation, named "Orangemoody" after the first account uncovered, found that sockpuppets had searched the site for deleted or rejected articles about businesses.〔 Many of the articles had been deleted for excessively promotional content. The editors, some posing as Wikipedia administrators, would then extort〔 payment from the businesses to publish and protect the articles. More than 200 articles were deleted. Besides businesses, individual people were targeted, including Cuban musician Dayramir Gonzalez.〔〔 The scammers themselves may have been involved in the deletion of some articles.〔 Wikimedia Foundation members Ed Erhart and Juliet Barbara declared that "undisclosed paid advocacy editing may represent a serious conflict of interest and could compromise the quality of content on Wikipedia".〔
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