Spinning Wikipedia

by Sheldon Rampton — August 16, 2007 - 9:27pm
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WikipediaWikipedia"Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities keen for some good PR," writes Bobbie Johnson. "But a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order to improve their public image. The Wikipedia Scanner, which trawls the backwaters of the popular online encyclopaedia, has unearthed a catalogue of organisations massaging entries, including the CIA and the Labour party. ... But the biggest culprit that the Scanner claims to have discovered is Diebold, a supplier of e-voting machines, which it says has made huge alterations to entries about its involvement in the controversial 'hanging chad' election in the US in 2000."

Main Source: 
The Guardian (UK), August 15, 2007

Comments

The source? and the relecture of a spanish tv

Submitted by Joe999 on August 18, 2007 - 8:58am.

Maybe the original news was this one

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker?currentPage=all#

In my country, Spain, a tv channel, Antena 3, transform that political news in: "look I can change the content of an article of the Wiki", and they did it!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xzmTwPzKHbk

Excuse my primitive english, hope do you undestand the commentary