----- Original Message ----- From: "michael west" michawest@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 2:19 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Australian Government Closes anon status to staff on WP
Anonymous editing aint bad - just dont break COI, now where has free speech gone in Australian government departments?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22299984-5005961,00.html
"The Defence Department has blocked employees from altering information on Wikipedia after 5035 edits by defence staff were detected."
"Defence has closed personal edit access down, though employees will still be able to browse Wikipedia for information purposes," a defence spokesman said.
mmmmmmmm
A lot of Australian Defence Dept edits (obviously not 5k of them, though) were known at the time to have been coming from a community banned editor who continued vandalising from work.