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== Federal Agency Cleans Up Its Own Wikipedia Entry ==
== Federal Agency Cleans Up Its Own Wikipedia Entry ==
By: Ryan Grim
By: Ryan Grim
January 27, 2007 05:55 PM EST
January 27, 2007 05:55 PM EST
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Wikipedia has come of age. The online user-created encyclopedia is now influential enough that the federal government feels the need to doctor it up.
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[[Keyword:=Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] has come of age. The online user-created encyclopedia is now influential enough that the federal government feels the need to doctor it up.
In late August, someone with an IP address that originated from the National Institutes of Health drastically edited the Wikipedia entry for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which operates within NIH. Wikipedia determined the edit to be vandalism and automatically changed the definition back to the original. On Sept. 18, the NIH vandal returned, according to a history of the site's edits posted by Wikipedia. This time, the definition was gradually changed, presumably to avoid the vandalism detector.
In late August, someone with an IP address that originated from the National Institutes of Health drastically edited the Wikipedia entry for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which operates within NIH. Wikipedia determined the edit to be vandalism and automatically changed the definition back to the original. On Sept. 18, the NIH vandal returned, according to a history of the site's edits posted by Wikipedia. This time, the definition was gradually changed, presumably to avoid the vandalism detector.
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