[WikiEN-l] US Congress Staff Editing Wikipedia

[Katefan0]

You MAY get some response, on the House side anyway, from Vernon Ehlers, in
his capacity as chairman of the House Administration Committee.  That
committee basically deals with the day-to-day issues of operating the
Congress, its chairman is sort of the "mayor of the House."

That'd be my best suggestion, but it's probably still a longshot.  Trent
Lott is his Senate equivalent (chairs the Senate Rules and Administration
committee), but that committee is much less active and has a somewhat
different mandate.

-k


On 1/30/06, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Whoops, I'll try this again...
>
> Like you say, each of these offices are more or less autonomous. I think
> the
> only real thing we can do is embarass them through publicity. If that
> doesn't work, we'll just have to watch and revert.
>
> Ryan
>
> On 1/30/06, Katefan0 <katefan0wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There's not really any central body you could get in touch with that
> would
> > mean anything.  Each person's office is essentially a little fiefdom.
> >
> > -k
> >
> >
> > On 1/30/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > John Lee wrote:
> > > > John Lee wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> A most interesting case, ladies and gentlemen:
> > > >> [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/United States Congress]]
> > > >>
> > > >> "This RFC concerns the behavior of editors from the United States
> > > >> Congress". This could possibly set a precedent for how we deal with
> > > >> vandalism from organisations trying to push their POV. We should
> > > >> probably contact someone at Congress to let them know how their
> > > >> reputations are being soiled on Wikipedia. I'm no good at
> > > >> understanding the consequences or repercussions of this, so I just
> > > >> think somebody involved with the Foundation (Jimbo? Angela?
> Anthere?)
> > > >> might be interested in this. Certainly we don't get vandalised by
> > > >> Congress everyday. :)
> > > >>
> > > >> John Lee
> > > >> ([[User:Johnleemk]])
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Well, whaddya know; it's on WikiNews!
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Congressional_staff_actions_prompt_Wikipedia_investigation
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > That's probably a more readable explanation of what's going on than
> > the
> > > > RfC.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Oh, we've had a link to that (via http://ln-s.net/$jo) in the
> #wikipedia
> > > topic for about 8 hours now... :)
> > >
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