November 11, 2005

As is the nature of Wikipedia, anyone can contribute, change, and even manipulate articles. Now, Norwegian Wikipedia moderators have locked the Norwegian-language article about Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, after someone wrote in the English article that Mr. Stoltenberg served time in prison in 1983-1984. (He didn’t, by the way.) You can still see the old version here, but bear in mind that the information about imprisonment and pedophilia is false.

He also has never been the leader of “norske Sjimpanse Ape forening,”
which would translate into something like “Norwegian Chimpanzee Monkey
Association.” There are limits even for politicians.

On a more serious note, I have to ask why the lock has been placed on
the Norwegian article, and not on the English one. Surely it was the
English one that was tampered with.

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