Friday, February 17, 2006

Rewriting history -- on a wiki

Check out this post from Computing Unplugged on how senatorial staff members have rewritten the bios of their bosses on Wikipedia to tone down the negative and highlight the positive.

This is the tricky part of wikis...if it's wide open to everyone, then anyone can change the facts as they see fit. In this case, they tracked down the culprits and resulted in some bad press (just what politicians need).

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