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Rumor: Russian Gov't Editing Wikipedia on Flight MH 17

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Russian Wikipedia page for the flight MH17 A Tweeter bot monitoring  any edits made to Wikipedia from Russian gov't IP addresses Nothing is definite but it's certainly obvious that Russian gov't is drifted into removing some pieces of info inconvenient to it from Wikipedia, such as the probable fact that it provided separatists with missiles that took down the commercial airliner. It was detected by a Tweeter bot monitoring edits to Wikipedia made from Russian gov't IP addresses. US president Barack Obama mentioned that the tragedy was likely done by the separatists and added that without sophisticated weapons they couldn't be able to down the airliner. If it were true, it could be the most embarrassing Wikipedia updates ever in history.  You might also like this post Via: The Telegraph

Italian Wikipedia Will Soon Be Closed.

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As you may already know that the year of 2011 would be one of the most unforgettable days for years to come with a number of big stories that made headline across the globe, including the great east Japan earthquake, the assassination of bin Laden, Steve Jobs's death and the list goes on. Currently, another news that have as enough impact as those occurred previously knocks back the world. In Italy, the government is now trying to apply a new low that will urge anyone who writes something that is not acceptable from the governmental point of view to write an apology on the Net within 48 hours; and the low will determinedly doom the continuation of the Italianized version of Wikipedia any time soon, despite the fact that the closure is their voluntary activity to claim against the Italian government. Additionally, it is not unduly surprised by the fact that Silvio Berlusconi sur...