The Register Exclusive: In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates.Closing out the longest-running court case in Wikiland history, the site’s Arbitration Committee voted 10 to 0 (with one abstention) in favor of the move, which takes effect immediately.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/29/wikipedia_bans_scientology/Also see:Wikipedia referees Scientology debate
On its surface, Wikipedia would seem to be the Wild West of the Web, a site where everyone is invited to write and edit articles about almost any topic. But every once in a while, a light shines on the army of volunteers and litany of bureaucratic policies actually needed to keep Wikipedia running, and the illusion of freedom is broken.On Friday, the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee voted to bar several IP addresses linked to the Church of Scientology from making edits to some or all articles on the site, as The Register first reported. The committee, a senior group of volunteers who frequently review matters related to controversial and high-activity articles, found these users to be in frequent violation of the site’s “neutral point of view” principle – defined as content added or edited “as far as possible without bias” – among other policies.
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2009/05/wikipedia_refer.htmlWikipedia bans Church of Scientology from editing
Wikipedia has banned contributions from the Church of Scientology to end a long-running dispute over the editing of Scientology-related articles on the site.The online encyclopaedia, which is edited by users, has ruled that all IP addresses owned and operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates are to be blocked as if they were open proxies.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/29/wikipedia-scientology
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