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

[Thomas Dalton]

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.
>
> mmmmmmmm

They are well within their rights to do that. I'm just glad they
bothered to take the time to block just editing.