Wired has a round up on reactions to MS considering having staffers correct inaccuracies in Wikipedia pages:

When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.

For all the yelling, I don't know that there's a real problem - an arbitrary MS staffer is no more likely to be biased than an arbitrary Wikipedia author - and it's entirely possible to get wildly negative content from MS haters. Heck - imagine if I were writing the entry on PVP-OPM, given my well documented dislike of Vista DRM.

I can't really fault MS for wanting to "police" the badness. On the other hand, it's easy to see where it could be considered astro-turfing (and MS has been accused of that before). To be honest, I'm not sure what the right answer is here.

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