Entrepreneurs Are Paying Wikipedia Editors to Create Profile PagesIt's technically against Wikipedia's rules. But that hasn't stopped this underground marketplace from thriving.
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Three years after launching an online magazine for young entrepreneurs calledFoundr,Nathan Chan decided it needed a Wikipedia page. "Any legitimate brand has one," he says. "All ourcompetitorshave pages." There were just two problems. Wikipedia strongly discourages people from creating their own pages. And the site's five-million-plus articles are largely created by 200,000-some volunteer editors, and it's unlikely one of them would suddenly take an interest in a smallstartupand build a page themselves.
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