Senator’s Wikipedia Edits Cause Blogosphere Controversy
FYI, if you or your company is well-known enough to merit a wiki entry, you’d be wise to remember that your edits are public knowledge, traceable by your IP address.
The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in an independent biography of the Lowell Democrat on a Web site that bills itself as the "world’s largest encyclopedia," The Sun has learned.
The Meehan alterations on Wikipedia.com represent just two of more than 1,000 changes made by congressional staffers at the U.S. House of Representatives in the past six month. Wikipedia is a global reference that relies on its Internet users to add credible information to entries on millions of topics.
It wasn’t very long ago that Adam Curry and the Wikipedia founder got caught editing their own entries, and their very public chastisement couldn’t have been fun:
