THE WIKIPEDIA entry of Genuine Opposition senatorial candidate Taguig-Pateros Representative Alan Peter Cayetano has apparently been defaced. A check on the History tab that shows all the changes that have been made to Cayetano’s Wikipedia entry shows that the defacing was made on May 16.
Under the “Education and other personal information” section, the user added this entry: Allan Peter Cayetano is also known as “Apeng Daldal”, “KSP Musmos” and “Walking Microphone.”
Under “Work Experience,” the user added: Stand up comedian at Laughline (1995-97).
Meanwhile, under “Voting record,” the user added the entry: Walang naisulat na batas. Busy sa papansin sa media. [Did not write any laws. Busy getting the media attention.]
The changes to these three sections were all made on May 16, using the same IP address.
Wikipedia is a user-generated online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Entries on sensitive topics that are prone to vandalism, or which have been repeatedly defaced, may be locked by Wikipedia administrators so that changes can’t be made to the entry.
May 16th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
alan peter cayetano???the walking microphone–imbes tumulong—-nang gugulo–tiyak di na magiging maunlad ang bansa natin kng mananalo c alan dahil puro impeachment bukambibig ng taong to…hoi, gising!
May 16th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Hello! The Alan Peter Cayetano article has been temporarily protected from further edits by anonymous users, so this means that only registered users will be able to edit this article. In addition, one of the anonymous editors have been blocked from editing on Wikipedia, as this user has also vandalized other articles as well. If you have other questions or concerns about this issue, please feel free to leave a comment on my Wikipedia talk page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Titopao. Thanks!
May 16th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Amusing, strange but true…
May 16th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Is the Inquirer really this desperate for news during election season? Wikipedia articles get vandalized all the time. That’s not news.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Had I not read about this from the Inquirer website, I wouldn’t be aware of this. Thanks for letting us know about this…I’ve submitted a request to Wikipedia administrators to have this article protected from editing by anonymous shared-IP editors. Hopefully, the request will be granted and this will not happen again, at least in the next few days.