Microsoft consults bloggers to correct Wikipedia's articles and also presents remuneration

Microsoft has asked bloggers "paying for certain articles on Wikipedia, so please correct it," it is a problem.

The reason for the consultation is that the applicable article is "for incorrect, considerably biased content" for Microsoft.

Details are as follows.
Microsoft in hot water over Wikipedia edits - CNN.com

An interesting offer: get paid to contribute to Wikipedia - O'Reilly XML Blog

According to this article, Microsoft acknowledged that it had paid a correction for Wikipedia articles with a fee, and the article in question concerned the open source documentation and the standardization of rival document formats pushed by Microsoft It seems to reveal that it is an item.

In addition, the format which became the origin of this problem is ODF (OpenDocument Format) format promoted by Open Office and OOXML (Office Open XML) promoted by Microsoft.

For each format the following links are detailed.

What is ODF 【OpenDocument】 (OpenDocument Format) - Meaning · Description: IT Term Dictionary e-Words,

What is OOXML [Office Open XML] - Meaning · Description: IT term dictionary e-Words

An article of Wikipedia where the following became a problem.

Ecma Office Open XML - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

OpenDocument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This great rash argument has been unfolded on Wikipedia and can be seen from the following.

Talk: OpenDocument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Microsoft asked be seeking contract editors for this article)

Microsoft's spokesperson for the article was said to have expressed that it is written biased by the people of IBM who support open source.

Incidentally, there is no example that Microsoft hired a blogger in the past, and a blogger called Jelliffe, who is actually an expert in a Australian-based computing company, calls itself a "fan of technical standards" rather than a stakeholder in Microsoft , I heard that he posted on the blog "I am surprised that it was approached by Microsoft, but thinking that it is important to check whether the process of the standards of technology is accurately written, accepting the offer". However, he said that he did not offer compensation to Microsoft, so there was no exchange of money.

Regarding this matter, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales expressed disappointment to Microsoft and Microsoft created a "white paper" on its topic or delegated for the interpretation of facts, It is said that it is appropriate to link at the discussion forum of the article after showing it on an external website.

Even in Japan, Rakuten rewrote his company's description in the past and it became a fuss.

Rakuten Securities Apology for Deleting Articles from Wikipedia - GIGAZINE