[LINK] Wikipedia editing by the Australian government
Marghanita da Cruz
marghanita at ramin.com.au
Fri Aug 24 17:34:52 AEST 2007
Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> stephen at melbpc.org.au quoted:
>> 'Poo bum dicky wee wee' among PMC Wikipedia edits
>> By staff writers and wires, August 24, 2007 09:41am
>> <http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22299260-2,00.html>
>>
>> Wikiscanner tracks 126 edits by PM's staff Changes often obscure, one
>> vulgar See the full catalogue of PMC changes here
>
> This publicity will not stop organisations making changes to Wikipedia
> entries. It will just make them more sneaky.
>
> All that's going to happen is that they get someone with an ISP account
> to do it from home. Using a big ISP like bigpond will effectively hide
> the originator's IP address.
>
Seems that some of these may not have been official changes, just people using
company resources...
Marghanita
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