Look who's editing Wikipedia !

[mrick]

An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that the CIA was involved in editing entries.

And staff for Democratic representative Marty Meehan admitted polishing his biography. A computer owned by the US Democratic Party was used to make changes to the site of right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh, callling his audience "legally retarded".

The Vatican has edited entries about Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, removing links to newspaper stories written in 2006 that alleged that Mr Adams' fingerprints and handprints were found on a car used during a double murder in 1971.

Diebold is the company that supplied electronic voting machines for the controversial US election in 2000. In October 2005, a person using a Diebold computer removed paragraphs about Walden O'Dell, chief executive of the company, which revealed that he had been "a top fund-raiser" for George Bush.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6947532.stm