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UK PC ProfessionalA trawl of parliamentary records has revealed surprising Wikipedia edits made by Government departments.
In the last few months Stephen O'Brien, MP for Eddisbury in Cheshire, has been sending written questions to various Government bodies in an effort to determine the amount of Wikipedia entries they've created or edited.
Last month, the question led the Department of Health to reveal it had been banned from the online encyclopaedia due to the amount of edits made by its staff, though it subsequently denied that staff were editing Wikipedia as part of their duties.
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UK government departments editing Wikipedia. Hmmm, wonder where they got the idea to have government employees edit propaganda into Wikipedia?
UK says editing Wikipedia is not part of their employees' job description. Well, okay then.