Politicians gaming Wikipedia?
February 1, 2006 8:46 AM   Subscribe

Congressional staffers lamely try to game Wikipedia. Get busted. But what happens when politicians (not to mention corporate PR types) really learn how?
posted by MarshallPoe (7 comments total)

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posted by terrapin at 8:50 AM on February 1, 2006


so is this the fourth post, or are we still at 3?
posted by delmoi at 8:53 AM on February 1, 2006


funny how the republicans abuse wikipedia by posting patently false information re: the war on terr, and the dems respond by calling republican senators "douche-bags."

i think maybe that's why i'm a democrat.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 8:53 AM on February 1, 2006


MarshallPoe, you should read metafilter more often if you're going to post here. Four day old stories that have been blogged to death are usually guaranteed to be already posted.
posted by jonson at 9:14 AM on February 1, 2006


so, let me get this straight -- these congression ... eh, never mind.
posted by crunchland at 9:16 AM on February 1, 2006


Wikipedia depends on the free-time of volunteers to enforce NPOV policy. If companies/politicians pay someone to hack POV's, it becomes a problem. It's the small articles, the long tail of wikipedia, that few are watching or know or care about, that presents the biggest problem.
posted by stbalbach at 9:18 AM on February 1, 2006


I hadn't seen this but it tickles me to think they can rewrite history and noone will notice. Are they unaware that Wiki tracks who's making the changes?

Damn, these are some seriously stupid monkeys that are beating us and that makes me sad.
posted by fenriq at 9:24 AM on February 1, 2006


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