Translated from http://www.prensa.com - WASHINGTON/EU (EFE). - Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, saidtoday to Efe that the changes made by the company, the FBI and otherorganizations in entrances of the encyclopedia do not worry to him"absolutely" since, segun said, do not tendran "ningunimpacto".Wikipedia, the gratuitous encyclopedia of Internet with abouteight million articulos in 253 languages that the users publish andwrite, animates to the participants in the service to adopt a virtualname, but also it allows his collaborators to identify itself simplywith a numerica direction of Internet. WikiScanner, a new virtual toolcreated by a informatica student, I reveal that I alter information ofthe encyclopedia from computers of the company, the FBI or theVatican. Asi, britanica chain BBC I inform this week, being based onthe searches made in WikiScanner, of which workers of the companypublished the profile of the president irani, Mahmud Ahmadinejad.Segun the WikiScanner, somebody from a computer of the Power stationof American Intelligence (company) introduced enormous exclamacion of"Queeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" before the section on the plans of lider iranifor its presidency. The BBC I also assure that I am used a computer ofthe Vatican to eliminate content of a pagina on Gerry Adams, lider ofthe Sinn Fein, politico arm of the WRATH. The edition I eliminate thevinculos periodisticos articulos written in 2006, that sostenian thatthey are habian found the fingerprints of Adams in vehiculo usedduring a double murder in 1971. The prestigious magazine of tecnologiaWired also offers one long irregular edition list in the Internetaddress: http://wired.reddit.com/wikidgame. What the WikiScanner does(http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr) it is to identify the directions of thecomputers that were used in the entrances anonimas of Wikipedia. Whencombining that with information publishes on a who the directionsbelong the Scanner reveals changes made from the computers of manyorganizations. Wales said to be "very excited" with a tool thatconsiders "very good". "We create firmly in the transparency, and anytool that transparency creates and causes that people assumeresponsibility by its acts is something that we defend", senalo thefounder of Wikipedia.
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