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Wikipedia has banned editing from machines inside Volvo Information Technology - the outfit that operates the Swedish auto maker's IT infrastructure - after someone in the organization vandalized the free encyclopedia with a pair of profanity-laden racist rants. Yesterday, an anonymous Wikifiddler sitting behind the IP address …

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  1. Ryan Barrett
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    Someone's going to get the sack..

    Worked for Volvo for six years so I know that they take a dim of racism (and contributing to wikipedia in general, I think). Someone's getting the sack.

    What is odd though is that just before I left they instituted a new network filtering system, which blocked pretty much any useful website. IIRC that included wikipedia. Which would have made it hard to fiddle with the wiki.

    Any current Volvo-ers know if that's still the case?

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  2. summator

    Scared About Loosing Job?

    What about somebody sitting behind IP 192.168.0.1 ?

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Looks like...

    ...Volvo IT have a /b/tard in their midst! It'll be worth keeping an eye on 4chan in the coming weeks for a poster BAWWWWWing about being sacked from Volvo IT because he Wikifiddled for the lulz...

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  4. Marvin the Martian

    Time to fire someone

    It's not like any Swede has ever known or cared about cricket. So it's a foreign (read: UK, Pakistani, or similar) IT techie bringing the company in disrepute... Jobs will be lost. Righty, it seems.

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  5. Winkypop Silver badge
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    Was it the Swedish Chef?

    Ah wonner who th' naughty parson wes who made th' nasty comments was?

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