I wouldn't say it is interns when there are edits that are made that are clearly politically motivated.[1][1.5][2][3]
And personally I believe they know about this twitter bot and edit random articles on purpose. There's a lot in there that have just added a space at the end of a sentence. That's obscurification.
You think there's a conspiracy to maliciously alter Wikipedia and to obscure those public edits under a mountain of seemingly innocent changes? But also that the conspirators are so naive they make the changes from their work computers without a VPN?
People who intern on the Hill tend to have strong feelings about politics. Makes sense that some of the pages the edit are political.
These are actually quite good edits. In the original versions of these articles, all the words being removed were not supported by any citation or anything else - so, while it's quite possible these adjectives were true (as I personally believe so), it's better to remove them unless they can be backed up.
Actually the language comes directly from the source, which was cited when the edits were reverted by another editor. Indicating that a claim is refuted is, imo, an important detail to include.
Most of these are pretty harmless; updates to sports figures, university pages for alumni, celebrities, etc. I didn't see any revisionist history edits like I was expecting.
There was Joe Barton's summary paragraph edited to remove mention that he told someone at a town hall meeting to "shut up," and replaced with what was essentially an ad, which only cited his own website. Seems to have changed back, with the addendum that the guy told to shut up later said he "deserved it." :\
What fails the sniff test about a German having studied abroad at a US university before WWI - when no significant enmity between the two nations yet existed - and, over the next few decades, following a course in life that led him to join the NSDAP and the Waffen-SS? Uncommon, sure. But implausible? (When and by whom was the same information edited into the article about Lombard?)
Not to be overly pedantic, but you're using revisionist history to mean a false rewriting of history, negationism, or denialism. The phrase historical revisionism actually means reinterpreting history based upon new evidence or new methods of analysis.
The incorrect use seems to have entered the popular imagination following the war in Iraq.
But even if that weren't the case, it wouldn't really matter, because it's clear what meaning the world has today, both in the general case and in the context of OP's comment.
I look forward to finding some time to read through some of these changes this weekend, but what this really makes me crave is a similar bot to track changes that are made to Conservapedia.com – The Trustworthy Encyclopedia™ – which I find very entertaining. Do yourself a favor and peruse some of the revert wars that happen over there.
Readit News
https://twitter.com/congressedits/status/913086284058554368
And personally I believe they know about this twitter bot and edit random articles on purpose. There's a lot in there that have just added a space at the end of a sentence. That's obscurification.
Then there are just weird ones[4]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=804694134&oldid=80...
[1.5] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=804694104&oldid=80...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=794544004&oldid=78...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=804108161&oldid=80...
[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=256336084&old...
Removing the military history of a soldier [5]
Shots fired at the FBI director [6]
I don't even know... [7]
This is amazing [8]
They became selfaware [9]
Complaint about socalists [10]
I just have more questions [11]
On the Men's Rights Movement [12]
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=806724420&oldid=75...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=806839290&oldid=80...
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=806847805&oldid=80...
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=806891548&oldid=80...
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=806089348&oldid=80...
[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=806088945&oldid=80...
[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=806085597&oldid=80...
[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=806084577&oldid=80...
People who intern on the Hill tend to have strong feelings about politics. Makes sense that some of the pages the edit are political.
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[0]: https://github.com/edsu/anon/blob/master/README.md
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=804694134&oldid=80...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=804694104&oldid=80...
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The incorrect use seems to have entered the popular imagination following the war in Iraq.
But even if that weren't the case, it wouldn't really matter, because it's clear what meaning the world has today, both in the general case and in the context of OP's comment.
A Zapier-like platform, made available to all Twitter users. Oh baby Jesus..
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