Dont be fooled, there is no actual service called PayPerWiki, but thats what  is causing a storm in the blogosphere. When a company like Microsoft makes even the slightest move, they should know the whole world will come to know about it sooner or later.

The most recent controversy deals with Microsoft’s decision to a pay a fellow Australian blogger by the name of Rick Jelliffe to edit Wikipedia pages containing information regarding the company. The Wikipedia pages were detailed postings stating the various technologies developed by Microsoft relating to open office standards.

You can be assured that anytime a company of Microsoft’s size and influence is mentioned, it will hit slashdot or other social media type sites. Just as you very well guessed, it did top slashdot and to further fuel the discussion,Matt Mahugh at Microsoft admitted to doing so in a comment.

Microsoft claims that they were not comfortable making direct changes to an article about their technology. According to Microsoft spokesperson, he states that the Wikipedia articles were written by authors of a competiting brand known as IBM which has adopted a different office standard, many of the details mentioned in the wikipedia articles were incorrect.

Wikipedia is designed in a way that anyone from anywhere can make changes to articles found in the site and so accuracy is somewhat comprimised. But, why would a company like microsoft care about Wikipedia, when they have such large public representation compaigns to deal with their image. Tech enthusiasts might be the only people, who would even care to read details regarding such technologies and they are aware of wikipedia’s flaws and advantages.