EA trying to cover its tracks from Wikipedia
Website Shack News did quite a lot of detective work to find out that there’s something going on behind Electronic Arts‘ Wikipedia pages. Shack News is claiming that multiple attempts to erase EA founder Trip Hawkins’ information from the Wiki have been tracked down to be from EA’s Redwood headquarters area.
Using the Wikipedia Scanner, they found out that a modification – done back in November 20, 2006 to remove Hawkins’ name from EA’s “key people” section on the company’s Wikipedia page – was done using a computer with the supposed IP from EA. The same user also removed the references for Hawkins and took away a paragraph about the big man’s business plan.
A couple of months after, someone using the same IP tried to remove Hawkins’ name from the “History” section. Strange enough, the reference for him was back on the page. Some other changes by who we can assume as the same user, include removing some paragraphs from “Criticism” section and putting a spin on the lawsuit filed by overworked, under-compensated employees to make EA look a little better.
Via Shack News
Website Shack News did quite a lot of detective work to find out that there’s something going on behind Electronic Arts‘ Wikipedia pages. Shack News is claiming that multiple attempts to erase EA founder Trip Hawkins’ information from the Wiki have been tracked down to be from EA’s Redwood headquarters area.
Using the Wikipedia Scanner, they found out that a modification – done back in November 20, 2006 to remove Hawkins’ name from EA’s “key people” section on the company’s Wikipedia page – was done using a computer with the supposed IP from EA. The same user also removed the references for Hawkins and took away a paragraph about the big man’s business plan.
A couple of months after, someone using the same IP tried to remove Hawkins’ name from the “History” section. Strange enough, the reference for him was back on the page. Some other changes by who we can assume as the same user, include removing some paragraphs from “Criticism” section and putting a spin on the lawsuit filed by overworked, under-compensated employees to make EA look a little better.
Via Shack News
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