[WikiEN-l] Australian Government Closes anon status to staff on WP

[David Gerard]

On 24/08/07, michael west <michawest at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


But if the employers of the world do this, the world of free and open
content will collapse!

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/UnNews:Research:_Uncyclopedia_worker_interruptions_costly


- d.