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

[Felix_Nietzsche]

Not surprising....
I remember reading Ann Coulter's wiki entry and it was heavily biased by Coulter haters. Since then wiki cleaned it up and left the facts in and the opinions out.

[Leaky Eye]

I don't see why the CIA or Marty Meehan shouldn't edit entries as long as they are entering factual data.

[LetItBe]

NYT was editing articles as well, and not in a good, factual type of way. This is why people need to more wary of Wiki than they are. Some kid at my law school tried to cite Wiki in a law review article...LOL!

[AngusThermopyle]

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Due to Wikipedia's open nature, critics have questioned its reliability and accuracy. The site has been criticized for its susceptibility to vandalism and the addition of false or unverified information, uneven quality, systemic bias and inconsistencies, and for favoring consensus over credentials in its editorial process. Wikipedia's content policies and sub-projects set up by contributors seek to address these concerns. Two scholarly studies have concluded that vandalism is generally short-lived and that Wikipedia is generally as accurate as other encyclopedias.

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... wiki on wiki

They seem to be aware of the problems, but I guess much of the general public is not.

[2/325Falcon]

[Ineedaride2]

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Not surprising....
I remember reading Ann Coulter's wiki entry and it was heavily biased by Coulter haters. Since then wiki cleaned it up and left the facts in and the opinions out.

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That's more than I can say for her journalistic methods....

[Toe-Knee]

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Not surprising....
I remember reading Ann Coulter's wiki entry and it was heavily biased by Coulter haters. Since then wiki cleaned it up and left the facts in and the opinions out.

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That's more than I can say for her journalistic methods....

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ZIIIIING!

[govman6767]

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This is the greatest post in the history of 2+2

[tomdemaine]

Yeah penny arcade is awesome