Wikipedia blocks access for American politicians after the ‘disruptive’ changes

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Wikipedia has it for ten days made it impossible to just with a computer of the U.s. House of Representatives Wikipedia pages to fit. According to founder Jimmy Wales ‘ongoing, disruptive changes,” the rise.

The adjustments were according to the BBC, in particular on pages about companies and politicians. So was the former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld of the United States portrayed as “an alien lizard’, while in another case, Cuba was behind the assassination attempt on former president John F. Kennedy. When the news site Mediaite was finally dismissed as ‘sexist’ and ‘transfobisch’, did the organization behind the encyclopedia in.

Wikipedia lets us know that all of the ip addresses to the House of Representatives belong, for at least the past ten days have been blocked. The decision, notably because of the adjustments previously conspicuous by the advent of Twitteraccounts as Congress-edits, which is reported from pages that someone within the U.s. Congress to be edited. For the Netherlands there is a similar account.

It is not yet clear who was behind the controversial changes, but someone from the U.s. Congress suggests that it was the action of two or three people. Founder Jimmy Wales tells the BBC that there is on Wikipedia always, there have been vandalism and there will continue to be, but he also thinks that Twitteraccounts as Congress-edits can work as a catalyst, because they offer a platform.

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