fascinating stuff. (forwarded from dave farber's interesting-people listserv..) --elijah ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Fairlie <tfairlie@frontiernet.net> Date: January 29, 2006 12:16:56 AM EST To: dave@farber.net Tom Fairlie www.stopthebuck.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Rewriting history under the dome By Evan Lehmann, Sun Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in an independent biography of the Lowell Democrat on a Web site that bills itself as the "world's largest encyclopedia," The Sun has learned. The Meehan alterations on Wikipedia.com represent just two of more than 1,000 changes made by congressional staffers at the U.S. House of Representatives in the past six month. Wikipedia is a global reference that relies on its Internet users to add credible information to entries on millions of topics. [...] In November and December, The Sun has learned, users of the House's IP address were temporarily blocked from changing content because of violations described by the site as a "deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia." More... http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_3444567 ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as elw@stderr.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/