Howard Government: over 5000 edits on Wikipedia
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- Howard Government: over 5000 edits on Wikipedia
- South African fficial Vandalises Wikipedia AIDS Content
- S. Africa vandalizes Wikipedia HIV info
- Wikipedia to be sold to The Spoof!
- Behind the e-curtain
- Gordon Brown shows his Wiki side
- Wikipilipinas founder answers credibility issues
Howard Government: over 5000 edits on Wikipedia
indybay.org – Aug 26, 2007
orgSunday Aug 26th 2007 11:59 AM Public servants have been found to have edited Wikipedia entries. Staff from the department have been found to have made edits to Wikipedia entries on topics such as the "children overboard" affair. Treasurer Peter Costello’s page was also edited removing a reference to the nickname "Captain Smirk".
South African fficial Vandalises Wikipedia AIDS Content
MedIndia – Aug 26, 2007
The culprit whose IP (Internet Protocol) address was traced back to a machine at the offices of government’s statistics arm Statistics SA will now face a disciplinary hearing. “Yes we have located the computer and suspended the person who the computer belongs to. ur own disciplinary processes will be activated and will see what happens later” said Statistics SA spokesman Trevor osterwyk. Information technology news website IT Web broke the story after an investigation revealed multiple deletions on July 27.
S. Africa vandalizes Wikipedia HIV info
PRESS TV – Aug 26, 2007
Africa vandalizes Wikipedia HIV info Sun 26 Aug 2007 05:50:38 GMT. The government official tried to censor information about his countries mismanagement of the outspread of the deadly disease. He had only left parts of the entry describing means taken by the government to curb the spread of the malady. Wikipedia’s policy cites vandalism as “any addition removal or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia”. The South African government official is now suspended from his duties and will face a disciplinary hearing.
Wikipedia to be sold to The Spoof!
thespoof.com – Aug 26, 2007
At xford University today academic sources told the UK press that rather than using Wikipedia first and foremost to check "spurious and often seemingly non-connected hysterical facts and figures" they routinely preferred turning to The Spoof! as the first port of call to verify the sort of useless data that is so hard to come by in other learned and approved sources. And at the BBC World Service editors have admitted that rather than wait for the breaking news from wire services such as ReUterus or Associated Press they routinely waiting to see what The Spoof! was posting in its Latest Breaking News section "just to get a bit of perspective on reality. ""We know the White House now subscribes to The Spoof! to double-check data before formulating its policies – especially on hydrocarbons warfare and political profiling" a Rose Garden source chuckled today. Meanwhile at Buckingham Palace the response was somewhat frozty when the Lord Chamberlain Lord Luce-Cannon was quizzed about his reaction to today's news:"Damned Bloody impertinence!" Luce-Cannon fumed.
Behind the e-curtain
Boston Globe – Aug 26, 2007
Wired Magazine which first broke the WikiScanner story asked readers to submit their own WikiScanner findings. Among them: In 2005 someone using a computer inside Royal Dutch Shell the oil company rewrote a benign description of the company claiming it is “run by a group of geriatrics who find it impossible to make timely decisions and have an aversion to highly-profitable ventures. “Wikipedia also has good Samaritans: people who clean up grammatical and factual errors and misspelled words. So while hours of fun will probably be had by WikiScanners there’s also an important if antiquated lesson here: Don’t believe everything you read. The Internet is great at fostering democracy when it creates more access to original sources of information from scientific databases to the Congressional Record. And Wikipedia shines when it does the same offering entries with links to such sources. But democracy alone doesn’t create truth.
Gordon Brown shows his Wiki side
Telegraph.co.uk – Aug 26, 2007
I could see from the way Gordon pursed his lips and nodded knowledgeably that he had no idea what I was talking about. “In case anyone doesn’t know” I said “Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia that anyone can contribute to and edit. So if anybody is thinking of polishing up their profile make sure you don’t use your own laptop. Someone suggested doctoring David Cameron’s Wikipedia entry to make him seem even wetter. There was quite a long silence before all agreed this was not only unnecessary but virtually impossible. Tuesday August 21 I was just packing up to go to tonight’s Proms when Jack Straw burst into my office like the Witchfinder-General a sheet of printout in his shaking hand – a copy of his Wikipedia entry… “In case anyone doesn’t know” I said “Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia that anyone can contribute to and edit. So if anybody is thinking of polishing up their profile make sure you don’t use your own laptop. Someone suggested doctoring David Cameron’s Wikipedia entry to make him seem even wetter. There was quite a long silence before all agreed this was not only unnecessary but virtually impossible. Tuesday August 21 I was just packing up to go to tonight’s Proms when Jack Straw burst into my office like the Witchfinder-General a sheet of printout in his shaking hand – a copy of his Wikipedia entry. Someone had doctored it to add: “Humourless belt and braces apparatchik who’s never had a real job outside politics unless you count President of the National Union of Students which nobody does. ” I asked a fuming Jack if he wanted me to trace the culprit.
Wikipilipinas founder answers credibility issues
Inquirer.net – Aug 26, 2007
Like Wikipedia the site applies the same GNU Free Documentation license meaning content is freely distributed and reproduced. Vibal says that site reached 100000 visitors less than 24 hours after it was publicly launched last Wednesday. Vibal said in a phone interview that VConnect which hosts Wikipilipinas has increased its bandwidth allocation to accommodate user traffic and beefed up its server requirements. Despite the rise in visitor traffic he said “there is no money to be made” and that the site does not operate on any business model yet. “As traffic gets higher we can start to monetize our eyeballs and maybe put ads or add a directory listing to the site” he said.
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