Years ago, my friend and I collaborated to write an investigative article on Wikipedia.

The plan was to expose the entrenched gang of Wikipedia editors who earn money by creating and editing Wikipedia pages.

A Bollywood producer helped me with the contact of an agency.
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The plan was to pose as the PR agency of a relatively unknown actress and create a wiki page as per our instructions on email.

We will have email instructions predating the edits and then invoices of payments. So we will be able to prove that Wikipedia India is corrupt

Our plan got changed along the way because we realised that Wikipedia relies heavily on publicly available news links and without them it is impossible to edit a page.

So, it was decided to remove unwanted edits from the newly created page and keep only the favourable edits

As decided, we paid 10K to an agency to create a page of a male actor. Both me and my friend shared the amount.

The total cost of creating and keeping the page for six months was 50K.

The agency demanded an annual contract of 30K for keeping the page up and purge unwanted edits

We learnt that Wikipedia is a deceptive place. Nobody can go and edit a page as they like.

You can edit a page but "they" reverse your edits if they don't like them.

A gang of about 50 Indian editors are on top of a chain of editors and they have complete control over Wikipedia