Japanese Bureaucrats Reprimanded for Wikipedia Editing

sufijazz writes "Six bureaucrats in the Japanese agricultural ministry have been reprimanded for working on the job ... for Wikipedia. The six officials were publicly chastised for editing hundreds of Wikipedia entries during work hours. These included over 250 entries about robots in anime. '"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam," said a ministry official, Tsutomu Shimomura ... The ministry's internal inquiry followed recent media allegations that a growing number of Japanese public servants were contributing to the internet encyclopaedia, which anyone can edit, often to reflect their personal views. The ministry verbally reprimanded each of the six officials, and slapped a ministry-wide order to prohibit access to Wikipedia at work, while disabling access to the site from the ministry, Mr Shimomura said. '"

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First Post?

[techno-vampire]

It's hard to believe that a non-subscriber gets first post, but there's nothing up yet. Oh Well...

Just to keep getting modded off-topic, I'd like to point out that blocking all access to Wikipedia is a tad heavy-handed. Forbidding them to edit entries on the job should have been enough.

Stop censorship!

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe we should drop another nuke on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to make these Japs remember who is boss when it comes to international politics. This time, rather than surrendering to US, they will promise to halt anime production inside of Japan and ban the export to the USA to protect our children from cartoons that often depict pedophilia and other weird stuff.

INVADE JAPAN AFTER WE NUKE THEM AND WIN THE WAR IN IRAQ