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

[Sarah Ewart]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael west" <michawest at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at 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.