[WikiEN-l] US Congress Staff Editing Wikipedia

Mon Jan 30 14:07:17 UTC 2006

Whoops, I'll try this again...

Like you say, each of these offices are more or less autonomous. I think the
only real thing we can do is embarass them through publicity. If that
doesn't work, we'll just have to watch and revert.

Ryan

On 1/30/06, Katefan0 <katefan0wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's not really any central body you could get in touch with that would
> mean anything.  Each person's office is essentially a little fiefdom.
>
> -k
>
>
> On 1/30/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > John Lee wrote:
> > > John Lee wrote:
> > >
> > >> A most interesting case, ladies and gentlemen:
> > >> [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/United States Congress]]
> > >>
> > >> "This RFC concerns the behavior of editors from the United States
> > >> Congress". This could possibly set a precedent for how we deal with
> > >> vandalism from organisations trying to push their POV. We should
> > >> probably contact someone at Congress to let them know how their
> > >> reputations are being soiled on Wikipedia. I'm no good at
> > >> understanding the consequences or repercussions of this, so I just
> > >> think somebody involved with the Foundation (Jimbo? Angela? Anthere?)
> > >> might be interested in this. Certainly we don't get vandalised by
> > >> Congress everyday. :)
> > >>
> > >> John Lee
> > >> ([[User:Johnleemk]])
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, whaddya know; it's on WikiNews!
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Congressional_staff_actions_prompt_Wikipedia_investigation
> > >
> > >
> > > That's probably a more readable explanation of what's going on than
> the
> > > RfC.
> > >
> >
> > Oh, we've had a link to that (via http://ln-s.net/$jo) in the #wikipedia
> > topic for about 8 hours now... :)
> >
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