Wikipedia vs Congressional Staffers [Update]

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 30, 2006 @09:34AM from the waiting-for-an-arbitrary-smackdown dept.

There has been quite a bit of recent reporting on the recent troubles between Wikipedia and certain Congressional staffers. In response, abdulzis mentions that "an RFC, Wikipedia's mediation method to deal with 'disharmonious users', has been opened to take action against US Congressional staffers who repeatedly blank content and engage in revert wars and slanderous or libelous behavior which violates Wikiepdia code. The IP ranges of US Congress have been currently blocked, but only for a week until the issue can be addressed more directly."

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Main IP offender no longer banned by P0ldy · 2006-01-30 10:01 · Score: 5, Informative

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The IP ranges of US Congress have been currently blocked, but only for a week until the issue can be addressed more directly.

The main offending IP in question is no longer blocked as of 30 January, this morning:

06:36, 30 January 2006 Michael Snow unblocked User:143.231.249.141 (Not consistently used by the same person; we shouldn't block people just because they work for Congress, and some people using this IP address are making commendable efforts at complying with our culture and policies)