Politicians deface Wikipedia
Found on The Inquirer on Tuesday, 31 January 2006
US politicians have been caught defacing entries on Wikipedia which they do not agree with, or say nasty things about them.
According to News.com, the latest case involves Marty Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat who deleted references to his broken term-limits pledges and massive campaign war chest on Wikipedia. Obviously he didn’t do it himself, his aides did it for him.
However, Wikipedia editors have compiled a list of more than 1,000 edits made by Internet addresses allocated to the US Senate and House of Representatives. Apparently they are so childish that Wikipedia has blocked the US Senate and House of Representatives IP addresses.
Good to know those calm and good-tempered men and women are in charge of a whole nation.