Wikipedia editors never walk alone: Hillsborough changes can be traced ... from @ConversationUK
By Andrew Smith , The Open University According to the Liverpool Echo , UK government computers have been used to make offensive comments on the Wikipedia page detailing the 1989 Hillsbourgh Disaster over a number of years. The newspaper reports that revisions to the page have been made from computers using the government’s secure intranet since 2009. They include insults to Liverpool fans and a comment suggesting that fans were responsible for the football ground disaster, in which 96 people died. This case highlights the continual issue of trolling and cybervandalism on Wikipedia. It also shows how journalism is using good, technical forensic tools at the disposal of every cybercitizen. Cybercitizens can be good or bad So many of us use Wikipedia on a daily basis that it is one of the most visited websites in the world. Yet not that many of us really understand how it works. Wikipedia is based on the principle that the community can create, edit and refine pages covering
A cynical (and admittedly completely technically knowledge-less) commentator might suggest this is Goog's way of rewarding you for using dynamic views...
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Any particular posts spiking?
Nor anything to do with all the work I do in the social media space within the Cisco Academic community either ... yes I do know where the traffic sources are ;-)
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