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July 13, 2014

Wikipedia bot tweets whenever anonymous US Congress IP addy makes an edit

New bot tweets anonymous Wikipedia edits from Congress. Now if we only had the same thing for PR firms


Source:  PandoDaily - full article - here.
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Wikipedia have created a bot that tweets whenever an anonymous edit is made from a US congress IP address.

So for there hasn't been anything beyond trivial spelling or grammar changes.



PR firms, on the other hand, wound up being investigated:

"... Wikimedia Foundation investigated 300 accounts suspected of removing damaging information from entries on behalf of a PR firm. This prompted eleven PR firms to sign a statement pledging to act ethically when making changes to pages belonging to companies they represent." [PandoDaily]

In my view, PR firms shouldn't even have access to the information repository.

We get plenty of spin already; how about just the facts?



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