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# Starting in April 2008, Karen “Fluffernutter” Ingraffea, who worked as a paid member of IBM's Watson AI team, began editing Wikipedia on company time, including the article covering the Watson AI project.<ref>https://tools.wmflabs.org/usersearch/usersearch.py?name=Fluffernutter&page=Watson+%28computer%29&server=enwiki&max=100</ref>  She married Wikipedia arbitrator Brad “Courcelles” Brown in September 2013 and no action has been taken against her for her paid editing.<ref>http://wikipediocracy.com/2014/02/09/elementary-my-dear-watson/</ref>

# Starting in April 2008, Karen “Fluffernutter” Ingraffea, who worked as a paid member of IBM's Watson AI team, began editing Wikipedia on company time, including the article covering the Watson AI project.<ref>https://tools.wmflabs.org/usersearch/usersearch.py?name=Fluffernutter&page=Watson+%28computer%29&server=enwiki&max=100</ref>  She married Wikipedia arbitrator Brad “Courcelles” Brown in September 2013 and no action has been taken against her for her paid editing.<ref>http://wikipediocracy.com/2014/02/09/elementary-my-dear-watson/</ref>

# Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) employee Sarah Stierch advertised her services as a Wikipedia writer for hire on the same freelancer site Wikimedia uses for its own contractors. Wikipedia articles she was alleged to have edited for pay include: the biography of Sally Hogshead,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sally_Hogshead&oldid=588872113</ref> an author and professional speaker; the article on ''The Leadership Challenge'',<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Leadership_Challenge&oldid=580204865</ref> a book on leadership and professional development; and the biography of Barry Posner, one of the book’s authors.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barry_Posner_%28academic%29&oldid=586827885</ref>  Critics raised this paid editing on Jimmy Wales' talk page.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_153#Paid_editing_by_WMF_employee_on_oDesk</ref>  After Wales denied Stierch was a WMF employee, and Fluffernutter jumped to her defense, she was terminated without public explanation by the WMF on January 9.<ref>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-January/129466.html</ref>

# Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) employee Sarah Stierch advertised her services as a Wikipedia writer for hire on the same freelancer site Wikimedia uses for its own contractors. Wikipedia articles she was alleged to have edited for pay include: the biography of Sally Hogshead,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sally_Hogshead&oldid=588872113</ref> an author and professional speaker; the article on ''The Leadership Challenge'',<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Leadership_Challenge&oldid=580204865</ref> a book on leadership and professional development; and the biography of Barry Posner, one of the book’s authors.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barry_Posner_%28academic%29&oldid=586827885</ref>  Critics raised this paid editing on Jimmy Wales' talk page.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_153#Paid_editing_by_WMF_employee_on_oDesk</ref>  After Wales denied Stierch was a WMF employee, and Fluffernutter jumped to her defense, she was terminated without public explanation by the WMF on January 9.<ref>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-January/129466.html</ref>

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