"LL UR INTERNETS B-LONG 2 US!!!!!!1"
Posted on 08/16/2007 10:30:04 PM PDT by familyop
An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has shown the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in editing entries.
Wikipedia Scanner allegedly found that workers on the Agency's computers made edits to the page of Iran's president and also that the Vatican has edited entries about Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopaedia where entries can be created and edited by anyone.
Most of the edits detected by the scanner correct spelling mistakes or factual errors, but others have been used to remove potentially damaging material or to deface sites.
Aren’t they allowed to defend themselves, and to correct false information?
The lefty sites are all in a frenzy over Fox News editing its own entry.
“Anyone” doesn’t mean “anyone” to leftists.
Anyone may edit an entry, meaning “not just anyone” may edit.
Got it?
That sums it up. the left believes in freespeech for the left and gags for the right.
So what?
The VATICAN didn’t do anything. SOMEONE at the Vatican did.
...agreed. The BBC piece needs aliens from the cosmos to make it funnier.
“Aren’t they allowed to defend themselves, and to correct false information?”
I’d think that if you’re dealing w/ matters of religion — Roman Catholic doctrine, church history, etc — then a Vatican person would be perfect to edit a Wiki article!
Likewise, I’d expect the CIA to have some expertise as well.
The current feeding frenzy assumes that there is something eeeee-villllll going on here, when in fact, most of it was pretty innocuous.
Besides, there’s always that “revert” feature where you can undo the changes that the last person did.
Look for my stuff in Wikipedia under “twohlford”....
The article mentions edits coming from specific places, and then mentions that there exist (perhaps in the whole history of wikipedia) edits which have removed material or defaced sites. It doesn’t explicitly say that the specific edits coming from the specific places mentioned are for removing material (though correcting information often does require removing material) or for defacing sites.
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