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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 个月前

Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits

wikipediocracy.com

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Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits

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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 个月前
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In 2013 we discovered a number of administrators from India who secretly had conflicts of interests and were using Wikipedia for PR. Today, we reveal another.
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    What does the PR acronym stand for ?

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      • Roman people
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        People roman ?

        Yeah I read it Pull request first time lmao

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          People roman ?

          I found it odd, too: dictionary entry. I’m guessing it’s cross language: romance languages tend to place nouns before modifiers. Or maybe it’s “People of Rome”?

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            From latin: populus Rōmānus

            In french could be peuple romain for example

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      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations

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        Thanks !

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