http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/PMs-staff-sanitise-Wikipedia/2007/08/24/1187462471544.html

The prime minister's staff have been editing Wikipedia to remove details that might be damaging to the government.

Staff in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet have made 126 edits on subjects ranging from the children overboard affair to the Treasurer Peter Costello, Fairfax reports.

The website points to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as the source of the edits.

Wikiscanner also identifies Department of Defence employees as the most prolific Wikipedia contributors in Australia.

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CIA and FBI editing wikipedia

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/CIA-FBI-computers-editing-Wikipedia/2007/08/17/1186857720243.html

People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.

The changes may violate Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines, a spokeswoman for the site said.

The program, WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and posted this month on a website that was quickly overwhelmed with searches.

WikiScanner revealed that CIA computers were used to edit an entry on the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A graphic on casualties was edited to add that many figures were estimated and were not broken down by class.

Another entry on former CIA chief William Colby was edited by CIA computers to expand his career history and discuss the merits of a Vietnam War rural pacification program that he headed.

Aerial and satellite images of the US prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were removed using a computer traced to the FBI, WikiScanner showed.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/New-online-tool-unmasks-Wikipedia-edits/2007/08/16/1186857676636.html

Many of the edits are predictably self-interested: PCs in Scientology officialdom were used to remove criticism in the church's Wikipedia entry. But others hint at procrastinating office workers, such as the tweaks to Wikipedia articles on TV shows being made from CIA computers.

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US reporters sue over Wikipedia edits

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/US-reporters-sue-over-Wikipedia-edits/2007/10/15/1192300662011.html

Two Associated Press journalists have sued Arkansas officials, accusing them of breaking state law by withholding information about which government computers were used to edit politically sensitive Wikipedia pages about the governor and former governor.

The lawsuit asks the court to order state officials to reveal the physical locations of five computers that were used while editing information about politicians on the popular online encyclopedia that allows anyone to submit or make changes to articles.

In August, Gambrell reported that state computers were used to edit information about Republican presidential candidate and former Gov. Mike Huckabee, Beebe and others. Using a Web site called WikiScanner that tracks changes to Wikipedia, Gambrell could see that the edits were made by computers with numeric Internet addresses assigned to the state.