“Lawrence Solomon at the National Post writes about a topic that WUWT readers have known about for a long time: How Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles.

We’ve known for some time that Wikipedia can’t be trusted to provide unbiased climate information. Solomon starts off by talking about Climategate emails.

The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period, a 400 year period that began around 1000 AD.

The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world — Wikipedia — in the wholesale rewriting of this history.

He then focuses on RealClimate.org co-founder William Connolley, who has “touched” 5,428 Wikipedia articles with his unique brand of RC centric editing:

All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

The Medieval Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing trick has been exposed. The glorious Medieval Warm Period will remain in the history books, perhaps with an asterisk to describe how a band of zealots once tried to make it disappear.”

My Comment:

As you know, wiki engineering is one of my recurring obsessions, having had to go through 3 rounds of wikipedia fighting to stay on it, and having nearly had some associates’ wiki pages wiped out because of their connection to me.

And what was I guilty of? Of nothing more dreadful than respectful, fairly carefully modulated writing on such hoary topics as Zionism, media corruption, racism, racialist ideology, banking, and the Federal Reserve. Never have I advocated anything that could remotely be called racist, foul, biased, or misogynist. I have simply been factual and rather indifferent to political codes or the particular form of brainwashing prevalent in the US – which is, if we don’t know about it, it ain’t worth knowing.

Whenever I suggested that wiki was manipulated, I was told I was being conspiratorial, that I was imagining things…and that that isn’t the way the world works.

But now…wiki-whacking has been exposed for all to see. If it’s this bad on climate-gate, think about all the other topics that have been skewed.

But that’s all going to change soon….little by little. Now that the whistle has been blown on these kapos, their come uppance is round the corner.

See this piece, that reports on the canning of errant wiki administrator, climatista Connolley.