Wikipedia’s online newspaper, written and edited by community members, has published a report claiming that their investigations reveal that the Adani group employed undeclared paid editors to write and sanitise related Wikipedia pages.
While the Wikipedia report has been published in the aftermath of Hindenburg Research’s report on the Adani Group, it includes allegedly unscrupulous editing and contributions made years before this news break.
The Signpost, according to its own Wikipedia page, focuses on English Wikipedia, its sister projects, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the Wikimedia movement at large.
This article, written by a Wikipedia community user Smallbones, is tagged under the ‘disinformation report’ category.
According to Signpost, more than 40 “sockpuppets” or undeclared paid editors created or revised nine related articles on the Adani family and family businesses.
‘Sockpuppetry’ refers to the misuse of multiple Wikipedia accounts.
All these accounts were later blocked or banned by Wikipedia.
Among those who fiddled with Adani articles, the report says, was a person using a company IP address, who rewrote the article for ‘Adani Group’ entirely.
The report says:
“Many of them edited several of the articles and added non-neutral material or puffery. A declared paid editor, using a company IP address, completely rewrote the Adani Group article. Others removed warnings about conflict-of-interest editing. Some created articles by unusual methods that avoided Wikipedia’s quality control systems.”
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