A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.A day after this story went online, according to excellent Palestinian news site the Electronic Intifada, the blowhard freak-tank CAMERA curbed its wiki-terrorism. Read all about it here.
A series of emails by members and associates of the pro-Israel group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), provided to The Electronic Intifada (EI), indicate the group is engaged in what one activist termed a "war" on Wikipedia.
- freddy
2 comments:
I hope that people look at Wikipedia with a critical eye and don't give groups that deface other people's histories a chance to actually do damage.
I remember that as a freshman I used Wikipedia as a source in one of my essays. I've gotten a lot more internet savvy since then and I know that the postings on Wikipedia always have the chance of being incorrect.
Has this happened before with Wikipedia? I'm sure some pages are defaced all the time, right? How do they regulate that?
-Jason
-Jason
One of the professor blogs I posted earlier in the semester posted something a few weeks ago about a Wikipedia-based assignment he'd heard about. "The project involves students writing and editing articles for Wikipedia from their semester's work with the aim of getting their articles to 'featured article' status."
http://lumpenprofessoriat.blogspot.com/2008/04/wikification.html
Pretty interesting in light of all the wikipedia posts this week.
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