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[News] [OT] Governments Corrupt Wikipedia, 'Arrest' Political Bloggers

  • Subject: [News] [OT] Governments Corrupt Wikipedia, 'Arrest' Political Bloggers
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:35:42 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Howard row over Wikipedia edits

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| Staff in the Australian prime minister's department have been accused of 
| editing potentially damaging entries in online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. 
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6961575.stm

Microsoft was caught editing articles related to it endlessly. Yesterday,
someone in Groklaw said that Microsoft is once again vandalising the article
on OOXML.

Chinese Internet dissident committed to mental hospital

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| "It is not acceptable that Chinese authorities use such methods to silence 
| citizens who have merely peacefully voiced their opinions", expressed the 
| organisation in an announcement. Apparently authorities have not abandoned 
| the practice of punishing those who have exposed the abuse of power and 
| defied censorship by compulsorily committing them to mental institutions.    
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94864/from/rss09

How about SCO's (and maybe Microsoft's attempt) to silence PJ and Linus?


Related:

Microsoft Hires Programmer to edit Wikipedia Entry For OOXML

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


Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits

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| The SCO Group, a software maker in Salt Lake City, made changes to product 
| information in its own entry this year. The company has been involved in 
| legal disputes over the rights to some open-source software.  
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/technology/19wikipedia.html?_r=3&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin


Spanish TV Channels Vandalize Wikipedia

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| The public station introduced falsehoods into the Wikipedia entry for John 
| Lennon; the private one vandalized the Elvis Presley entry. Both stations 
| said they were performing an "experiment" to check the reaction time of 
| Wikipedia. Both articles were promptly corrected by other editors.   
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/18/2324217&from=rss


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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