The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Wikimedia Foundation

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • INF-3.10: Volunteer editors banned Wiki-PR on 25 October 2013, and counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation wrote to the firm on 19 November 2013 that undisclosed paid advocacy editing violates the Terms of Use. The Foundation amended the Terms of Use on 16 June 2014 to require paid editors to disclose their affiliation, and on 31 August 2015 it reported that volunteer editors had blocked 381 accounts and deleted 210 articles in the Orangemoody investigation of undisclosed paid advocacy.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 1043 19 November 2013. Cooley LLP on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation: Letter from Cooley LLP (for the Wikimedia Foundation) to Wiki-PR, "Wiki-PR and Paid Advocacy Editing"
  • Exhibit 1044 16 June 2014. Wikimedia Foundation (General Counsel): Making a change to our Terms of Use: Requirements for disclosure (Wikimedia blog)
  • Exhibit 1045 31 August 2015. Wikimedia Foundation: Hundreds of "black hat" English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation (Wikimedia blog)
  • Exhibit 1047 August 2011. Wikimedia Foundation research program (Meta-Wiki, supported by WMF): Research:Contribution Inequality (Wikimedia Research project page)
  • Exhibit 1049 run 10 November 2026. Wikimedia Foundation (Analytics REST API): Wikimedia Analytics API: editors by activity level and edits, en.wikipedia, content pages, September 2025