Wikipedia blocks 'disruptive' page edits from US Congress

[bing101]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28481876

WOah this is fun to hear. Wikipedia does not accept political trolls editing on their site. Last Week I posted that Russian Political trolls went to Wikipedia to conduct a cover-up of MH 17 attack.

[hotdogPi]

I would think that page and many other political pages would already be semi-protected (people must have an account with 10 or more edits to edit that page).

[roadman65]

It is funny that this thing with Wikipedia is brought up once again as one poster mentioned how many highway related things on it are being vandalized lately.  People going on and changing the information and stuff either for fun or like trolling.

[bing101]

It is funny that this thing with Wikipedia is brought up once again as one poster mentioned how many highway related things on it are being vandalized lately.  People going on and changing the information and stuff either for fun or like trolling.

Its funny because I saw a link showing how the rebels were screwing the evidence with MH 17 and Wkipedia was altered to fit the Russian agenda.

[rschen7754]

I suspect that it's just a bored intern.

Out on the U.S. Roads WikiProject we're pretty good at catching vandalism, though if it's a state that none of us edit or knows anything about, something could possibly slip through. What's more damaging is people who insist on adding in their own two cents about a road, such as adding in their favorite junction into the top 10 list of major junctions, or adding in their own unsourced trivia into what is supposed to be a reliably sourced and high-quality article. And then continuously reinserting it when we try to fix it.