{"id":528,"date":"2006-02-01T00:31:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T00:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/528"},"modified":"2006-02-01T00:31:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T00:31:13","slug":"congressional-staffers-try-to-whitewash-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/528","title":{"rendered":"Congressional staffers try to whitewash Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia community is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment\/United_States_Congress\">trying to respond<\/a> to whitewashing of politically-sensitive articles that appear to be coming from congressional staffers themselves (with the staff of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marty_Meehan\">Marty Meehan<\/a> (D, MA) being one of the biggest <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Marty_Meehan&#038;diff=19100228&#038;oldid=17926016\">culprits<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always amazed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a> works as well as it does \u2014 hopefully the bad press Meehan and other congress-critters get over this flap will outweigh any good press specific staffers may have hoped to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed coverage at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowellsun.com\/ci_3444567\">Lowell Sun<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2061-10796_3-6033082.html\">C|net<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/06\/01\/30\/2123219.shtml\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia community is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment\/United_States_Congress\">trying to respond<\/a> to whitewashing of politically-sensitive articles that appear to be coming from congressional staffers themselves (with the staff of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marty_Meehan\">Marty Meehan<\/a> (D, MA) being one of the biggest <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Marty_Meehan&#038;diff=19100228&#038;oldid=17926016\">culprits<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always amazed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a> works as well as it does \u2014 hopefully the bad press Meehan and other congress-critters get over this flap will outweigh any good press specific staffers may have hoped to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed coverage at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowellsun.com\/ci_3444567\">Lowell Sun<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2061-10796_3-6033082.html\">C|net<\/a> and <a 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