Vatican Caught Editing Wikipedia Entries
The Vatican just can’t seem to stay out of trouble. This time they were apparently caught red handed editing Wikipedia entries on Catholic saints and Gerry Adams. The Vatican shares this questionable behavior with the likes of the CIA, Republican party, Fox news, and Labour party. Thankfully, the Democratic party’s only crime was calling a conservative talk host “idiotic”, “ridiculous” and labelling his 20 million listeners as “retarded”.
In the words of Wikipedia creator:
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” — Jimmy Wales, July 2004
For all that is good in this world, this appalling racket of editing on wikiepedia has got to stop.
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Now, wait a minute…. the Democratic example, that’s childish and wrong. The Labor one is questionable.
But, without knowing the information that was changed, it’s not right to assume that whoever was at the Vatican and changed the information was wrong.
Wiki is supposed to be a good source of information BECAUSE anyone can edit it. It’s reasonable to believe that someone at the Vatican might– just maybe– know a bit about saints, and I can think of half-a-dozen things that are likely to show up on a “Catholic” terrorist’s page that need editing.
The same goes for the CIA– they don’t tell us what was changed. Judging from the other examples, which are all reasonably foolish on the part of the editors, I’m going out on a limb and saying the unlisted stuff *wasn’t bad.* If it showed how horrible the CIA and folks at the Vatican were, they would have mentioned the changes.
Kudos to the original article for separating between “The Vatican/CIA/DNC did THIS” and “Someone at a computer sharing the IP address of ____ did this.”
Comment by Foxfier — August 15, 2007 @ 10:20 AM
You’re joking, right?
Comment by Lynne — August 15, 2007 @ 6:43 PM
“You’re joking, right”
yeah, the whole idea behind wikipedia is the editting process, that’s what so assinine about the article.
Comment by shelray — August 15, 2007 @ 6:54 PM
They do mention that the Wiki guys find it “in poor manners” to edit your own entry.
Comment by Foxfier — August 15, 2007 @ 7:09 PM
‘They do mention that the Wiki guys find it “in poor manners” to edit your own entry’
that doesn’t mean much coming from a site that have/had pedophiles editing pedo material and other sexual subjects, or non theologians posing as editing theologians. As a side note, Wikipedia and google must have some sort of arrangement bacause it seems thier website shows up in the top 5 for just about any google search.
Comment by shelray — August 15, 2007 @ 9:24 PM