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[News] [Rival] Microsoft and US Government Caught 'Moderating' Their Wikipedia Pages

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft and US Government Caught 'Moderating' Their Wikipedia Pages
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:54:19 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits

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| The changes may violate Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines, a 
| spokeswoman for the site said on Thursday. 
| 
| The program, WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe 
| Institute in New Mexico and posted this month on a Web site that was quickly 
| overwhelmed with searches.   
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-08-16T224359Z_01_N16428960_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-WIKIPEDIA.xml
http://tinyurl.com/2om2aq

Edit by Microsoft Corp.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=3864532

Edit by the MSBBC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_W._Bush&diff=prev&oldid=9152976


Yesterday:

Vote On the Most Shameful Wikipedia Spin Jobs

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| Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith just launched an unofficial 
| Wikipedia search tool that threatens to lay bare the ego-editing  and 
| anonymous flacking on the site. Enter the name of a corporation, organization  
| or government entity and you get a list of IP addresses assigned to it. Then 
| with one or two clicks, you can see all the anonymous edits made from those 
| addresses anywhere in Wikipedia's pages.    
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/vote-on-the-top.html


Related:

Microsoft Hires Programmer to edit Wikipedia Entry For OOXML

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/79130/index.html


Microsoft Program Manager: Wikipedia is a Giant Joke

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| I am especially amused by all the bits in red font since they are
| either borderline libel or just straight up hilarious.
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http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=136975bc-b378-4408-bf7e-dbaa28fe21e6


Cjhebgen re-writing SCO's history on Wikipedia

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| It's very interesting what changes they try and make. Like they've
| removed the link to Groklaw
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http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_(A_to_Z)/Stocks_S/threadview?m=tm&bn=2942&tid=415572&mid=415572&tof=5&frt=2

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