Wikipedia Blocks US Congress' 'Persistent Disruptive Edits'

Page edits from congressional computers have been banned for at least ten days.

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Wikipedia editors have blocked computers from the U.S. House of Representatives for making “persistent disruptive edits” to Wikipedia pages. Page edits from House computers have been banned for ten days, largely due to the “actions of two or three,” one staffer told the BBC.

The Twitter account @congressedits has been monitoring changes to Wikipedia pages coming from congressional computers. In an attempt to maintain the site’s integrity, bots like these alert editors by sending out a tweet each time an edit is made from government-owned IP addresses.

The bot brought attention to rouge edits made to the pages of businesses, politicians (the biography of former U.S.

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