US Congress spices up their Wikipedia references

oXYnary · Feb 2006

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Online reference site Wikipedia blames US Congress staff for partisan changes to a number of political biographies.

Computers traced to Capitol Hill removed unpalatable facts from articles on senators, while other entries were "vandalised", the site said.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4695376.stm

MoP · Feb 2006

Yeah, I read this the other day - pretty funny stuff. It's like some PR guy didn't realise that the point of a Wiki was that it was editable but Wikipedia is meant to be factual, so any changes omitting the truth would obviously be discovered and rolled back

Silly politicians!

KeyserSoze · Feb 2006

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16

KDR_11k · Feb 2006

Just wait until spammers and activists deface Wikipedia regularly to the point where noone wants to use it anymore in fear that an article about the Carebears might have been replaced with Goatse...

CheapAlert · Feb 2006

mmmm page protection.

US Congress spices up their Wikipedia references

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