Tag: wikipedia
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#MorningMonarchy: August 15, 2017
Helpful hackers, controversial content and streaming services + this day in history w/Woodstock and our song of the day by Moon Boots on your Morning Monarchy for August 15, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 2, 2017
Sock ’em robots, Falcon launch and predatory advertising + this day in history w/Joseph McCarthy and our song of the day by BNQT on your Morning Monarchy for May 2, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 25, 2017
Supermassive manhunt, power grid blackouts and ‘mega-Hubble’ space secrets + this day in history w/Ella Fitzgerald and our song of the day by Shout Out Louds on your Morning Monarchy for April 25, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: October 4, 2016
Wikirolled, Marketplace and a trip to Mars + this day in history w/Wikileaks and our song of the day by Okkervil River on your Morning Monarchy for October 4, 2016.
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Stop Female Scientists Being Written Out of Wikipedia History
from theguardian.com: Professor Dame Julia Slingo is not a shadowy figure. As chief scientist at the Met Office, she is an expert on a national obsession and has barely been out of the spotlight since Britain was taken by storm. But hunt for her on Wikipedia and just five short paragraphs pop up. “Many female…
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dutch royals caught revising wikipedia
from ap: A Dutch royal couple acknowledges altering a Wikipedia entry about a 2003 scandal that forced the prince to renounce his claim to the throne. Prince Johan Friso, son of the reigning Queen Beatrix, and Princess Mabel of Oranje-Nassau are the latest to be embarrassed in a spate of discoveries of vanity changes to…
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american airlines: 9/11 didn’t happen
from daily kos: WikiScanner discovered that American Airlines changed their Wikipedia entry to state that Flights 11 and 77 never flew on 9/11. Original entry was: Two American Airlines aircraft were hijacked and crashed during the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack: American Airlines Flight 77 (a Boeing 757) and American Airlines Flight 11 (a Boeing…
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who’s editing wikipedia? diebold, cia & wal-mart
from wired: On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company’s machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the location of the computer used to make the edits.…