{"id":1483,"date":"2007-08-16T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2007-08-16T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T22:54:00","slug":"wikiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Wikiality"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Globe & Mail has an article <\/a>on Government of Canada computers being used to edit wikipedia<\/span> entries<\/a>, thus altering reality. Given the amount of editing that happens on Afghanistan memos <\/a>by this government, that’s not too surprising.<\/p>\n

Most of the edits are fairly mundane – Jason Kenney<\/span> and Dan McTeague<\/span> have criticism replaced with praise and Paul Martin is called Canada’s worst Prime Minister. If you’re going to edit wikipedia<\/span> entries…and I would certainly not suggest that any of my blog readers do<\/em>…but, if you’re going to, here are some edits that might be fun:<\/p>\n

-Go through the entire Conservative caucus and say whether or not they are a member of the Quebec nation (e.g. “Lawrence Cannon <\/a>is a member of the Quebec nation”, “Monte Solberg<\/span> <\/a>is not a member of the Quebec nation”…)<\/p>\n

-Add an entire article on Gilles Duceppe’s<\/span> <\/a>24 hour run for the PQ<\/span> leadership. Add an “endorsements” section with Gilles Duceppe’s<\/span> endorsements being composed of…Gilles Duceppe<\/span>.<\/p>\n

-Add a few extra conditions to the Elizabeth May<\/a>\/Stephane<\/span> Dion <\/a>deal. “Stephane<\/span> Dion agrees to compost at home while, in exchange, Elizabeth May gets the animation rights to a Kyoto the Dog cartoon series.”<\/p>\n

-“Jean-Pierre Blackburn <\/a>is a member of the Harper Cabinet, although his actual existence has yet to be confirmed by anyone inside or outside of Ottawa since being sworn in last year.”<\/p>\n

-“Stephen Harper <\/a>has looked positively dashing since hiring a taxpayer funded stylist last year.”<\/p>\n

-“Pat Martin<\/a> is considered by most to be the one of the best puppeters<\/span> <\/a>on Parliament Hill…second only to Stephen Harper.”<\/p>\n

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-“Jim Flaherty’s<\/span> <\/a>2007 budget ended the unproductive era of bickering between the provincial and federal governments, replacing it with a far more productive era of bickering between the provincial and federal governments.<\/p>\n

-“Stephane<\/span> Dion<\/a> is not a hero<\/a>. He has never appeared on Heroes. Not even in a guest role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Globe & Mail has an article on Government of Canada computers being used to edit wikipedia entries, thus altering reality. Given the amount of editing that happens on Afghanistan memos by this government, that’s not too surprising. Most of the edits are fairly mundane – Jason Kenney and Dan McTeague have criticism replaced with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}