Dutch Justice Ministry blocks employees from using Wikipedia
The Dutch Justice Ministry said it would temporarily block its 30,000 employees from using Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, after a magazine reported that more than 800 entries had been edited from ministry computers.
Though most of the changes the magazine, Intermediar, said it found were non-objectionable, some involved changing the positions of political parties or the profiles of figures in criminal cases. Many others were obscene.
“We’re doing this as a temporary measure while we investigate how much use - and misuse - our people make of Wikipedia, and what we can do about it,” ministry spokesman Ivo Hommes said Saturday.
He said access to all Wikipedia sites would be blocked while the ministry reviews its policies.
Full article: The Canadian Press, 19 November 2007
