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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Why is this on the frontpage of slashdot?

[kungfoolery]

This is only peripherally related to technology in that it refers to an online encyclopedia. Other than that though, I hardly consider work-site delinquency a hard-hitting subject for the community. "Your rights online:"? Not even close. This sounds like a bunch of employees improperly utilizing government resources - nothing more.

"a ministry official, Tsutomu Shimomura"

[Vinz]

Tsutomu Shimomura ? You mean, the guy who got Kevin Mitnick arrested ?

Such a coincidence. And such a short memory for slashdot editors ;).

Re:New meme's abrewin'?

[RyoShin]

In Korea, only old people are in charge of Gundam.