Paid editors on Wikipedia - should you be worried?

By Kim Osman, Queensland University of Technology
Updated August 22 2014 - 1:13pm, first published 12:06pm
Volunteers do the majority of edits on Wikipedia.
Volunteers do the majority of edits on Wikipedia.

Whether you trust it or ignore it, Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world and accessed by millions of people every day. So would you trust it any more (or even less) if you knew people were being paid to contribute content to the encyclopedia?

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