Congress Makes Edits To Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit [oh boy, I could see this one coming]. The online encyclopedia is produced by readers who add entries and can edit any page at will at anytime.Apparently US Congress staff have been making partisan changes to political biographies. After computers were traced back to Congress an inquirey was made into what exactly was going on.
Chief of staff, Erich Mische for Senator Coleman stated... ,
"They've got an edit provision on there for the sake of editing when things are not accurate," Mr Mische told the Associated Press.
"I presume that if they did not want people to edit, they wouldn't allow you to edit."
Now, Wikipedia is concerned whether it is ethical for those with a vested interest should be allowed to make edits to the entries.
In the last six months Congressional computers have been blocked from making edits due to "inappropriate entries."
Bush Editing Block [What's the chances]
The article on President Bush has been edited so much that Wikipedia monitors have had to put a block from further "editing."
What this proves is you cannot trust Congress with an edit button. heh heh
Source: BBC News
posted by Sandy at 6:20 AM
3 Comments:
Dang, I see they deleted my Bush Sucks entry. Rats.
heh heh Now you don't honestly think they're going to let anything stand that might make the cowardly prissy cheerleader look bad, do ya?
L
Next thing you know Congress will demand to track IP addresses of those leaving "dangerous" edits. Oh, silly me, they are already doing that :-()
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