This morning The Sydney Morning Herald revealed staff at the Prime Minister’s department had been editing details on Wikipedia, including changing articles that were damaging to the government.
But while some of the contributions are about national political affairs, many of the entries are related to matters such as guitar trivia, bird watching, and historical results of Serbian football matches.
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A new website, Wiki Scanner, traces the digital fingerprints of those who make changes to entries in the online encyclopedia. It has allowed the identification of edits by computers registered to the CIA and the Vatican.
The most embarrassing edit traced to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PMC) is an act of vandalism on a martial-arts related entry, in which the user wrote, “Poo bum dicky wee wee” on the page in an apparent test. (See it here.)
The Department of Defence yesterday said it would ban defence staff from accessing the encyclopedia.
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