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Joe DeSantis, Newt Gingrich’s communications director, has come under fire for making significant changes to Gingrich’s Wikipedia page, CNN Political Ticker reported Monday. According to Wikipedia records, DeSantis has made or requested over 60 alterations to Wikipedia’s biographical entry on Gingrich. The communications director has also made changes to Gingrich’s wife Callista’s page on the online crowd-sourced encyclopedia, adjusting her entry at least 23 times since 2008, according to BuzzFeed. DeSantis has requested changes to the GOP presidential candidate’s page through a feature on the site called “Talk” since May 2011, most recently asking for adjustments in mid-December. DeSantis has...

News flash: Wikipedia isn’t always correct. The online encyclopedia’s penchant for posting inaccuracies isn’t helping U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, whose parents are listed on Wikipedia as being two fallen public figures in Broward. “She is the daughter of former Broward Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, and her stepfather is Richard Rubin,” the entry about the congresswoman reads.

Congressional support for controversial online piracy legislation eroded dramatically on Wednesday in the face of an unprecedented online protest supported by tech titans such as Google, Wikipedia and Facebook. Several key senators withdrew their support from the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA), including Tea Party favorite Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), an elected member of his party's leadership. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who leads the Senate GOP's campaign team, said the legislation should be put on hold, while Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a sponsor and the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, retreated from the...

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This screen on the left is what greeted visitors to Wikipedia on Wednesday, as the online encyclopedia site began its ‘blackout’ protest of two controversial intellectual property bills currently being discussed in the US Congress.

Do not try to look up "Internet Censorship" or "SOPA" or "PIPA" on Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia, on Wednesday. SOPA and PIPA are two bills in Congress meant to stop the illegal copying and sharing of movies and music on the Internet, but major Internet companies say the bills would put them in the impossible position of policing the online world. Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, now says his site will go dark for the day on Wednesday, joining a budding movement to protest the two bills. Google vs. China Watch Video Craigslist Censored? Watch Video China Hackers Stealing U.S....

Hawaii’s sourcing of news (ChinaHawaiiToday)- Suppression of information in an island state is an extremely effective tactic; Hawaii is a one newspaper state (the Star-Advertiser is the only major newspaper of the Islands). Though popular online journals as HawaiiReporter.com or multiple ethnicity based or island specific (e.g. Maui) newspapers exist, a large number of citizens in Hawaii gather much of their information from the over-arching Star-Advertiser. Such clout produces an environment wherein editors, writers, and journalists of this single source hoard influence. Outside sources at this point, become highly important, giving an ‘outside point of view.’ Such outside sources would...

Jimbo Wales (the founder of wikipedia) criticized the Hugo Chavez article for not including criticism of Chavez's food policies. Some of the things that Jimbo criticized the article for including are the very same sources that I had added in the past, which the Chavez supporters then deleted. My original account was Grundle2600. I was banned by User Rd232. He was one of the Chavez supporters who kept deleting that information. Jimbo doesn't seem to know that this info has been repeatedly added and then deleted from the article. The person who banned me from wikipedia was Rd232, one of...

H.R. Haldeman. If you are familiar with that name, the first thing to pop into your mind would probably be Watergate.  And, indeed, the very first sentence of Haldeman's Wikipedia entry mentions that scandal. Lanny Breuer. For the folks who now know the name of the Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Criminal Division, Operation Fast & Furious would come to mind right away. However, this scandal that Breuer is best known for is absent from his Wikipedia page.

Once in a while I go to Wikipidea in order too at last try and remove some of the socialist drivel from there site. It is a futile effort I know but sometimes I come across pages or sentences Stalin and Hitler would be proud. Today I ran into this page on racial superiority. I will let you decide here are some of the better lines I found: Supremacism or racial superiority I will start with this one:“President George W. Bush’s support for fundamentalist Christianity has been linked to his having a “Christian supremacist vision” in his policies in the...

The Infamous anti-Whites racist genocidal Nation of Islam linked NBPP is scheduling another dreadful "day of action" on Saturday August 13, 2011, as advertised on their: 'dayofactionmovement[DOT]org/ Here are glimpses from the earlier D.O.A. in April of this year: The Jawa Report: NBPP: National Day of Action and Unity 23 Apr 2011 by Stable Hand April 23, 2011. NBPP: National Day of Action and Unity. Yes, that racist, kill white cracker babies, antisemitic, New Black Panther Party who DOJ refused to prosecute for voter intimidation. A CALL TO ACTION! http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/207509.php New Black Panther Party Pushes Boycott of Non-Black Businesses Tuesday,...

Hi, I don't think I have ever posted my own topic so hopefully this comes out ok and is in the right place. I am confused on the difference between a topic and a keyword, sorry. There is something disturbing at the wikipedia right now. A user some here might have heard of, a David Shankbone (I know. ick), a noted homosexual activist and pornographic pornographer, has created a wikiarticle on Michele Bachmann's husband Marcus found here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Bachmann the problem is that the article has not been created because the wikipedia people think he is worthy of recognition - what...

All I'm doing here is looking at the names and tracking them down. Let's get started. Their own website states: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_August_2008 On August 4, invitations went out for the Funders' Briefing to be held at the Sloan Foundation in New York on September 11, 2008. Current confirmed guests include representatives from the Ford, Hewlett, Surdna, Sunlight and Stanton Foundations, the Open Society Institute, and National Geographic. Attending the briefing from WMF will be Erik Möller, Sara Crouse, Rebecca Handler, Stu West and me.(Prepared by: Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation) Sue Gardner is the Executive Director of wikimedia. Moller is...

NORFOLK EVEN FIGHTER PILOTS need some help carrying their luggage when they're embarking on a six-month cruise. Lt. William Fincher, assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 15, had his mother help carry his gear to the aircraft carrier Bush on Tuesday afternoon. The Bush and its sister ships in Carrier Strike Group 2 leave today for an expected six-month deployment to the Mediterranean and Arabian seas.

There’s no page for Christophobia on Wikipedia. Uniquely, the “free encyclopedia” feels more comfortable with the milder term, Anti-Christian sentiment. As well, readers are informed: “This article is about negative attitudes towards Christians. For criticism of the doctrines and practices of Christianity, see Criticism of Christianity.” Just in case you didn’t know! Furthermore, the linked “criticism” looks, oddly enough, like anti-Christian mythology masquerading as history. Some would call this an example of Christophobia. The authors (leftwing Democrats in pajamas my guess) also list the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, and Israel as examples “of anti-Christian sentiment in politics and culture” as...

Apparently coinciding with Barry's birth certificate "dance" this week, Wikipedia has scrubbed references to "Natural born citizen" and "Emerich de Vattel" in its definition of NBC. Here's the way the page looked on 4/10/11, from the Wayback Machine:http://replay.web.archive.org/20100410150638/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizen If the link doesn't work go to http://web.archive.org/ put in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizen and click the Show All button. Click on the April 10 date. And here's what it looks like now:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizenNow that Barry and his minions feel they've made fools of us Birthers, they're doing everything in their power to prevent us from going after the REAL issue - his dual citizenship. They released...

Apartheid in Palestine – Censored by Wikipedia by Spartacus on April 13, 2011in Edit War,Editing on Wikipedia This article was deleted by Wikipedia administrators.Note: Wikibias received a hard copy of the article by an anonymous editor before it was deleted and made inaccessible from Wikipedia. This is the most recent draft of the article available prior to its deletion. The Palestinian Authority’s treatment of the Christians, Jews, women, gays and the refugees of 1948 has been compared by United Nations investigators, human rights groups and critics of Israeli policy to South Africa’s treatment of non-whites during its apartheid era.Public...

In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done. More than 250 languages? Sure. But another number has proved to be an intractable obstacle for the online encyclopedia: surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women. About a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, collaborated on a study of Wikipedia’s contributor base and discovered that it was barely 13 percent women; the average age of a contributor was in the mid-20s, according to the study by a joint center...

Just when you think Wikipedia might have cleaned up its act, they confirm their essentially agenda-driven, truth-challenged agenda. Look at the former entry on "blood libel" via the WayBack Machine link posted above -- then go check out Wikipedia's current entry. These people are absolutely shameless.

You can't trust everything you read on Wikipedia. Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi[1] (pronounced /pəˈloʊsi/; born March 26, 1940)... Hmmm..... I suppose she was young and needed the money. Happy New Year!

LAS VEGAS -- A security researcher involved with the Wikileaks Web site was detained by U.S. agents at the border for three hours and questioned about the controversial whistleblower project as he entered the country on Thursday to attend a hacker conference, sources said on Saturday. He was also approached by two FBI agents at the Defcon conference after his presentation on Saturday afternoon about the Tor Project. Jacob Appelbaum, a Seattle-based programmer for the online privacy protection project called Tor, arrived at the Newark, New Jersey, airport from Holland flight Thursday morning when he was pulled aside by customs...

It looks like Fidel Castro got tired of looking himself up on Wikipedia, as Cuba has launched EcuRed. The site touts itself as non-imperialist; it is also designed for Mozilla Firefox because foxes are apparently communists. The site's default language is Spanish, but don't let that stop you from checking out all of the biased goodness. For example, it has an extensive article for the "Estados Unidos," or the United States. Here is a translated paragraph about the United States' supposed imperialism: "The national image that the United States see themselves as protectors and defenders of the law, freedom and...

Each year at this time, we reach out to ask you and others all across the Wikimedia community to help sustain our joint enterprise with a modest donation of $20, $35, $50 or more. If you value Wikipedia as a source of information – and a source of inspiration – I hope you’ll choose to act right now.

My time alone with you is sacred not just special and I long for our discussions at " length " and to be pondered as an eternal memoir and medallion set in stone as the Twelve Stones of Judah for I AM THE LION that " ROARS " out My Love for you as I reveal My Fullness to you in My Breath " RUAH " I AM " Virtue Alive " and ( ( dwelling ) ) in you so fill your lamp of your " Holy Place " with " ME " through our Friendship " AS ONE...

South Korea a word of understanding concerning todays attack from North Korea This morning who happens to be Korean rushed in and said "North Korea just attacked South Korea" ! Immediately The Spirit of The Lord began to speak to me and I rushed out and wrote this down . . . for your discernment . South Korea your time is at hand , What is it you do not understand , For you worship me with your lips and your mouths , But this is not what it is all about ! Come away from the Laodicians they can...

I visited wikipedia (my bad) for two items (I learned to sip and to be SELECTIVE in the "info" that libs. and PaidIslamoActivists insert there) I got this popup. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA010/en/US?utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=20101117BT01&utm_source=2010_JA1_Banner5_US&country_code=US - A message from wikipedia's founder asking for donations. --- On wiki bias see: http://conservapedia.com/Examples_of_Bias_in_Wikipedia Also: http://WikiBias.com, http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2009/05/is-wikipedia-biased-against-israel.html and http://wikipediaisbiased.wordpress.com among others)

Overtures of My love are coming your way , This day I have set it before you and in my will you obey , So prepare for your blessings are about to shower down , Much more in obedience shall be required of you but now you wear my crown , For my fullness you now walk in and I AM completed in you , My desires now are yours for you have broken through , So watch as I complete all your dreams and requests , For just as Joshua I have dressed you in my very best ,...

The King of kings is about to call ! Unilateral agreements are now coming into play , The Bride of Christ coming together all in one day , So break out the confetti and raise your voice and sing , For the King of Glory and his banquet are about to ring \o/ , The sound of unity across his Body and Bride , For The Kingdom of God is moving in leaps and strides , No longer will hindering spirits be allowed to stand , For The Lord himself is coming with an army to take back all his...

Look what someone has placed prominently on Wikipedia at very front of the section describing Christine O'Donnells Religious Views: In a 1999 appearance on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, O'Donnell admitted she had "dabbled in witchcraft" and had a "midnight picnic on a satanic altar." Said O'Donnell, “I dabbled into witchcraft - I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. ... I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do.”When explaining her experience, she continued,“I mean, there's little blood there...

It can be a tough thing with Wikipedia. Most of the time, it seems the information provided by the site is up-to-date and spot on. But given the way Wikipedia posts are created, by anyone and everyone, it seems a tad risky to rely on entries as the truth, the whole truth.

#5. Che Guevara Deserves His Global Adulation The Catholics, homosexuals, AIDS victims, and dissidents he put into forced labor camps and slaughtered might beg to differ. The Wikipedia entry on Che Guevara goes to great lengths to underscore the reason behind the cult of Che. He was a brilliant idealist, he was inspiring, concerned for the welfare of his Cuban brethren, a savvy military strategist, and on and on. Psychotic, cold-blooded killer? Well, of course there are those criticism, Wikipedia points out, but they also go on to say that this may be attributable to the toll the revolution took...

CIA AGENTS EXPOSED IN MURDEROUS WIKIPEDIA FRAUD: URGENT PUBLIC DECEPTION POPULATION POISONING & CHILD TRAFFICKING ALERT

Why cant we link directly to Wikipedia articles? I am a big fan of Wikipedia. It is a world treasure in my opinion. If you find liberal bias in articles, change it and present the facts, and be prepared to back them up. There are great articles about our recent heroes, including: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II And cool David and Goliath stories like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft Other than the most controversial topics, I have never found Wikipedia to be inaccurate or misleading. Facts are facts. I request that we be allowed to link in Wikipedia articles into FR, which is now banned, as...

Mitt Romney's the favorite at this early stage in a couple key Republican primary states: Florida and Nevada. Romney came up short in Florida last time, but for now Republicans in the state prefer him to the other leading potential 2012 candidates. Romney gets 31% with Palin and Gingrich tied for second at 23% and Huckabee and Paul further back at 15% and 6% respectively. These numbers are good news for Romney and bad news for Huckabee and Palin...

I saw The Father in the garden and he was shaking an old tree . I asked him what this tree represented and he said "California" . The next day I was drawn to this vision again and I watched as The Father uprooted this full grown tree and began to examine the roots thoroughly ! I heard The Father say these words concerning California for your discernment . . . "They will be annihilated unless they turn from their wicked ways and I am sending them My Jonah's for they are about to encounter a road to Damascus event...

Don't donate to wikipedia and here's why.

More on racist militant Islam at NBPP, Malik "Zulu" Shabazz "American Muslim Clerics Join Malik Zulu Shabazz of Anti-Semitic New Black Panther... http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=14294 Michelle Malkin » Whitewashing black racism; Shabazz: “Prepare for ...Jul 9, 2010 ... Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz, Esq. Convention Convener and Party ..... I have prepared for war with racist criminals like yourself for a ...... Two months after the 9/11 attacks, I reported on Muslim NBPP head Malik Shabazz's disgusting anti-Semitic, anti-American diatribe at the . http://michellemalkin.com/2010/07/09/whitewashing-black-racism/ Malik Zulu ShabazzMalik Zulu Shabazz, the anti-Semitic and racist leader of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), has sought...

In February, Pajamas Media published an article on German government subsidies of English-language cinema. Why is an American translator from Berlin not allowing the information to appear on Wikipedia?...

Wikipedia has become home base for a loose worldwide network of pedophiles who are campaigning to spin the popular online encyclopedia in their favor and are trying to lure more people into their world, an investigation by FoxNews.com confirms. Chat room posts show a clear effort by pedophiles to use Wikipedia, which can be accessed unfiltered in public schools across the country, to further their agenda. Message board posts often include links to specific Wikipedia articles that the participants say need to be edited to "normalize" pedophile behavior in the public eye and to recruit more pedophiles into their community.

There is a place where the State of Israel is incessantly vilified, its leaders maligned, and its policies continuously criticized by Arabs and their third world and Western cohorts. Any attempt to defend Israel is immediately quashed by hordes of Jihadists and like-minded anti-Semites. Israel’s defenders are subjected to censorship while its most virulent detractors are afforded the podium to blather about this or that “atrocity” committed by Israel in defense of its citizenry. It’s a place where truth gives way to vitriolic, blood curdling Israel bashing. If you think I’m talking about the United Nations Human Rights Counsel or...

Despite efforts by Wikipedia's parent company to rapidly purge porn from its servers over the weekend, the original images that the online encyclopedia's co-founder reported to the FBI are still up on the site — along with an entire category called “nude children” and other photos of naked children. Last week, FoxNews.com asked dozens of Wikimedia Foundation’s corporate donors — including Microsoft, Google, Best Buy, Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute, USA Networks and Yahoo! — for comment about the vast pornographic content on the company's educational servers. (The Wikimedia Foundation is the tax-exempt nonprofit behind Wikimedia Commons and its Wiki...

After creating a huge post regarding all the different ways that the left shuffles funding around towards NPR, I realized it was probably a bit too long and I thought there might be a better way. So here is a visual which should help make it easier:

(edit) After much pressure from within the Wikipedia community, co-founder Jimmy Wales has relinquished his top-level control over the encyclopedia's content, as well as all of its parent company's projects.(edit) When asked who was in charge now, the source said, “No one. It’s chaos.” According to insider sources and publicly available internal listserve discussions, Wikimedia editors have rebelled in the last week against Wales' attempts to remove pornographic images from the nonprofit's websites. Those images have been the subject of heated discussion within the community since their existence was revealed exclusively by FoxNews.com on April 27.(edit) Hundreds of listserve discussions among Wikimedia...

The great Library of Alexandria, established by Ptolemy II (circa 280 BC), has come to symbolize the receptacle of knowledge of Classical civilization. This great repository was barbarously razed in the Middle Ages. At its height, the Library contained an estimated forty thousand volumes on a wide variety of topics. It held works on astronomy, mathematics, physics, medicine, and philosophy -- many of which were copied from the hieroglyphic and cuneiform texts of the Egyptians and Babylonians. It also stored histories of all the countries of the known world: histories of Egypt, of Babylonia, of Persia, of the lands of...

The Wikimedia Foundation today announced a partnership that will make it possible to obtain high quality print and word processor copies of articles from Wikipedia and other wiki educational resources. The development of the underlying open source software is supported by the Open Society Institute (www.soros.org) and the Commonwealth of Learning (www.col.org), and led by PediaPress.com, a start-up company based in Germany.

The parent company of Wikipedia is knowingly distributing child pornography, the co-founder of the online encyclopedia says, and he's imploring the FBI to investigate. Larry Sanger, who left Wikipedia in 2002, said Wikimedia Commons, the parent company of Wiki products including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews and Wikiquote, is rife with renderings of children performing sexual acts. Sanger sent a letter to the FBI earlier this month outlining his concerns and identifying two specific Wikimedia Commons categories he believes violate federal obscenity law. The first category, entitled “Pedophilia,” contains 25-30 explicit and detailed drawings of children performing sexual acts. The category was...

March 2010 -- Although Jimmy Wales, the public figurehead of Wikipedia, tries to give the world the impression that his website is an independent entity, the reality is that the Wikimedia Foundation, of which Wikipedia is a project, is directly dependent upon support from super-wealthy benefactors with connections to the pharmaceutical investment business. One of the most notable of the Wikimedia Foundation’s supporters is the so-called “Open Society Institute”, founded by the chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, George Soros. Links between George Soros, the Wikimedia Foundation and the drug industry George Soros is a Hungarian-born currency speculator and multi-billion...

This is a list of questions that I asked at wikipedia before I was banned. I was then banned, because I had previously been told not to ask those questions again: Before you possibly ban me, please answer the following questionsPlease answer my seven questions regarding the article "Presidency of Barack Obama": 1) There was talk page consensus to have a single sentence about Van Jones resigning after it was revealed that he was a self described "communist" who blamed the 9-11 attacks on the U.S. government. Why should I be punished for adding that info to the article? 2)...

I am suddenly getting no response from WIKI searches. Anyone know anything about it? Is "onestepsearch" a problem?

Is Wikipedia/Wikimedia foundation funded by special interest groups? A list are major donors to Wikipedia below Financial Reports Wikimedia Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Press release) Omidyar Network Stanton Foundation (Press release) Arcadia Richard Lounsbery Foundation Open Society Institute (George Soros founder)