Public servants censor Wikipedia entries

AUSSIE PUBLIC servants are being paid taxpayers' money to censor Wackypedia so that it does not say anything bad about their political masters.

Wackypedia, which continues to be staffed by fake penis experts who define who is real and who is noteworthy, seems completely unable to stop professionals sanitising political entries.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald editing instructions, emailed by the parliamentary librarian, Roxanne Missingham, told MPs and their staff how to remove information they regarded as "incorrect or biased".

The Department of Parliamentary Services, which houses the Parliamentary Library, has edited 30 Wikipedia pages in the last week and has used the same internet address. However the fake penis experts have failed to spot something so obvious.

Some of the edits are just to replace politicians' biographical details and photographs with official versions from the parliamentary handbook.

However the page for the Labor MP, Kerry Rea, was modified to remove a paragraph detailing criticism of her full-time work as a councillor while she was spending considerable time campaigning for Parliament.

Innovation Minister, Kim Carr's entry deleted personal details and a paragraph saying he had been criticised for branch-stacking. A reference to the "disastrous" 2002 state election in Victoria was cut from Liberal senator Helen Kroger's entry.

Generally politicians from both sides of the spectrum think its is perfectly fair to sanitise their entries so don't expect self regulation.

Wackypedia famously deleted the Everywhere Girl and was set to obey the edits of Daily Tech readers and remove the entry of the INQ's former editor, Mike Mageek from its pages until our readers revolted. µ

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Sydney Morning Herald