Whodathunkit? CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits

Razer g2s at riseup.net
Thu Oct 24 14:35:01 PDT 2019



On October 24, 2019 11:32:26 AM PDT, coderman <coderman at protonmail.com> wrote:
>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 4:40 AM, Razer <g2s at riseup.net> wrote:
>...
>
>> It violates Wikipedia’s neutrality guidelines for a person with close
>ties to an issue to contribute to an entry about it, said spokeswoman
>Sandy Ordonez of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia’s parent
>organization.
>>
>> However, she said, “Wikipedia is self-correcting,” meaning misleading
>entries can be quickly revised by another editor. She said Wikimedia
>welcomed the WikiScanner.
>
>i remember seeing some of these on a page regarding SCS:
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special_Collection_Service&offset=&limit=500&action=history
>
>it was indeed pointless to try such sabotage, in the end...
>
>best regards,

This one's done almost a million point five edits https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Monkbot&action=view It alleges to be a TrappistBot! Rotf! Dunno about it's CIA status but it DOES say something about the veracity of info onsite.

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