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Wild East: Russian Business Conflicts Spill Over into Wikipedia

Wikipedia is available in nearly 300 languages, with Russian version tied for the sixth place as the most extensive (alongside Spanish, Polish, and Portuguese), with approximately 950,000 articles, and more added every day. To ensure quality and reliability of information, numerous volunteer editors read articles relevant to their expertise, modifying and removing them if found severely lacking. These efforts have largely been successful. However, ru.wikipedia.org (the Russian version) may be losing this battle. Experienced editors started noticed around that time the activities of new user Nljomu, who, immediately following her registration, started “correcting” articles about Russian cement major Sibir Cement. In November 2012

She became more careful after this, but was still fundamentally doing the same thing: promoting her customers and trashing their competitors. She also attempted to delete critical articles about Sibir Cement management, including Mr. Valeriy Bodrenkov “This is only one example that highlights the new ways of abusing Internet resources that is emerging in Russia