Most of you know about Wikipedia. Basically, an ever growing encyclopedia which anyone can add to, or delete information. Now there are company's looking at their Wiki sites, and deleting "negative" information. Disney is one. And guess who another is? Diebold! Hm! I found that absolutely great! An excerpt from Techdirt:
This will probably come as a surprise to absolutely no one, but a new Wikipedia scanner service is matching the IP address of Wikipedia edits to the organizations the IPs are associated with -- and it's turning up some interesting matches. For example, there's the person coming from a Diebold IP who deleted paragraphs and paragraphs of Wikipedia content that highlighted Diebold's ongoing security problems. Then there's the Disney employee who tried to pull a link to Cory Doctorow's speech on why DRM is bad for business from the DRM entry. Wired is actually keeping a running tally of some of the most interesting edits. Now, before people use this as more evidence as to Wikipedia's trust problems, it doesn't look like those edits did much damage, as they were quickly changed back to the more appropriate entries by those watching out for vandalism.
Wired is actually keeping track of who is editing what. Go check it out! Thought it was worth posting, considering yesterdays post about the Iowa Straw Poll and faulty Diebold machines.
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