Tuesday, August 21, 2007

NASA by Far the Biggest Government Censor on Wikipedia

According to an article on Govenment Executive.com, NASA is far and away the biggest Wikipedia editing source when it comes to US government agencies. A website called Wikiscanner keeps track of just who is editing what pages, and NASA is the clear winner with over 6,800 Wikipedia pages edited.

One has to wonder; why is NASA so intent on filtering the Wikipedia content that the general public has access to?

Until the Wikiscanner search for individual pages is enabled, we won't know exactly which pages they are editing, but with 6,800 edits, they must have a whole team devoted to holding the NASA party line over at Wikipedia.

-- MB

11 comments:

  1. BTW - is this the book cover - Christ I hope not - because there should be a much different flag - but of the same motif...

    Sword

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  2. The flag pic on the book cover is very weak!

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  3. Okay... so what's "weak" about it? (BTW, neither Richard nor I had a say in the cover design...)

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  4. It is very interesting to see who is posting here, especially in light of RCH's abandonment of "The Crew" last year. Where's the outrage that was all over FSHOD for the longest time over the lack of response by The Good Captain as to why he left everyone high and dry? And btw, since when does asking questions, legitimate ones, qualify one to be a roach? Blind allegiance, to anyone, is quite unbecoming.

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  5. Dude I was calling BU a roach. CC just happened to be in the line of fire.

    CC seems like an intelligent guy, his associations is what keeps people away from his blog.

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  6. Mike - About your pic, looks like you have been up all night at the GAMES(Gears of WAR!)

    You would not want to see my ugly MUG!

    Hey there ClamyToe, I think you have your bases covered.
    BTW - Who you sucking up to?
    Beware, BU is out there lurking about!

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  7. MeanGreen, I've looked like that for years....

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  8. MeanGreen said...

    BTW - Who you sucking up to?


    Sucking up to? Show me where I've done that and I'll see if an explain is even needed.

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  9. NASA is a gov't 'funded' agency... it relies on money appropriated yearly from Congress... if NASA is to continue to exist they must do as they are told by Congress. I worked one year for NASA and that was enough for me.

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  10. Guadalupejoe,

    What did you do there ... that "opened your eyes?" :)


    RCH

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  11. Guadalupejoe,

    What did you do there ... that "opened your eyes?" :)


    RCH


    What did RCH do?

    Oh yeah - oversee a fake landing, to score Cold War Political points, as Vietnam was the movie playing in those days, and that was a buuummmer maaaan

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