Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: stevey on August 20, 2007, 01:23:21 PM
Title: Who really editing wikipedia
Post by: stevey on August 20, 2007, 01:23:21 PM
A program WikiScanner scan wikipedia edits IP address and matches them to known IPs and find out who really doing it. link
Quote - Microsoft tried to cover up the XBOX 360 failure rate
- Apple edit Microsoft entries, adding more negative comments about its rival
- Bill Gates revenge? Microsoft edits Apple entries, adding more negative comments about its rival
- The Vatican edits Irish Catholic politician Gerry Adams page
- In the 9/11 Wikipedia article, the NRA added that “Iraq was involved in 9/11”
- Exxon Mobil edits spillages and eco-system destruction from oil spillages article
- FBI edits Guantanamo Bay, removing numerous pictures
- Oil company ChevronTexaco removes informative biodiesel article and deletes a paragraph regarding fines against the company
- Scientology removes criticism and negatives article from Scientology page
- Al Jazeera TV station adds that the foundation of Iraq was just as bad as the Holocaust
- Amnesty International removes negative comments
- Dell Computers deletes negative comments on customer services and removes a passage how the company outsources work to third world countries
- MySpace removes paragraph when their website was hacked
- EA Games deletes whole paragraphs of criticism about employment practices and business methods
- Dog breeding association deletes whole paragraphs about fatal attacks by dogs on humans - US Republican Party changes the "Post-Saddam" section of the Baath Party article to a different account of the war, changing the language from "US-led occupation" to "US-led liberation"
- Fox News removes all controversial topics against the network from the Fox News page
- News of the World deletes a number of criticism against the paper
- Nestle removes negative comments on its business practices from its page
- UN address calls journalist Oriana Fallaci a racist ‘prostitute’
- Portuguese government removes entries about Prime Minister’s scandals
- DieBold, the company that controversially supplied computerised polling stations in the US elections, removes numerous paragraphs with negative comments
- Walmart removes criticism of outsourcing work. The retailer also changes negative paragraphs of underpaid workforce
- Sony removes harmful paragraphs against blu-ray systems
- Someone at Reuters calls Bush “a mass murderer”
- Coca Cola removes negative content about its effects
- British Conservative Party removes negative references of its MPs and deletes paragraph of the party’s old policies
- US University adds the “prestigious” adjective to its page
- Boeing edits from “Boeing is a leading American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer” to “Boeing is the leading American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer”
- MSN Search is “a major competitor to Google”. That’s what MSN added to their page
- BBC changes Blair's drink from coffee to vodka and his workout from the gym to the bedroom. Someone from the BBC also changes Bush’s page, changing the name from ”George Walker Bush” to “George Wan*** Bush”
- Someone from The Guardian edits the Wikipedia page of rival newspaper The Times. Originally in the article it is said that The Times sells more than The Guardian. After the edit, The Guardian sells more.
Nothing really too shocking but interesting....
Title: RE: Who really editing wikipedia
Post by: NWR_pap64 on August 20, 2007, 01:28:37 PM
A little more and the editing feature will be gone for good.
I remember when someone edited "Nintendo sucks" onto their page. And I had an embarrassing experience in which someone put a picture of a penis in the Yoshi page.
Title: RE:Who really editing wikipedia
Post by: Sir_Stabbalot on August 20, 2007, 01:35:06 PM
I salute all the men and women who donate some of their time to fixing such vandalism.
/Salute
Title: RE:Who really editing wikipedia
Post by: Shift Key on August 20, 2007, 07:43:07 PM
This reminds me of the time when RAB modified the Captain Falcon page to show some of Infernal's artwork.
He got banned from Wikipedia as a result (i think), but it was worth it.
Title: RE: Who really editing wikipedia
Post by: that Baby guy on August 20, 2007, 07:46:56 PM
Infernal's CF artwork? Sounds like I should be scared...
Title: RE: Who really editing wikipedia
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on August 20, 2007, 07:50:03 PM
RAB is an esteemed freedom fighter.
Title: RE:Who really editing wikipedia
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on August 20, 2007, 07:52:21 PM
Quote Originally posted by: thatguy Infernal's CF artwork? Sounds like I should be scared...
