Today as i started my Monday session on the web, my mind paralyzed for over it seamed more than 5 minutes in emptiness…I was trying to fully understand what i has just realized.Even within our own education rescue plans, the vices of our idiosyncrasy that narrow our minds have seem to take effect. Is so evident that our own education programs obstruct our cultural development?Was it possible that the own leaders of the project vandalize their information?Mr. Alejandro Guzman kindly revitalized my almost lost interest on Enciclomedia Project. After my brief response i decided to go back to my information sources and look for some updates, that is how i found out about Colin Bryton and his excellent notes on the topic.Further more I return to Wikipedia with the hope to see some new knowledge on the project. For my surprise I saw myself before a sad surprise.Almost all content from the article had been deleted. Only copy-paste content from the governments’ web-sites appear along with a lame excuse in defence of the project where an discussion related to the content edition should be.My first reaction was obviously think of our governments’ party.After all they demonstrated an affection to hide manipulated and cheat on their own reports.But I fought against my first instincts and decided to do a proper analysis of the situation.I, personally am not a very savvy wikipedia user. so i went to the irc channel and presented the case… within no more than 2 minutes the content was restored along with the previous discussion pages (one point for open democracy).After the damaged had been reverted, I was still curious about this mysterious changes. So I went and dug some more.So it happened to be that our arbitrary editor user with ip: 148.245.60.60 was asked not to edit the article in such manner or would be banned. Ok an ip.. we have something now.
Hola, 148.245.60.60. Te agradeceré no edites arbitrariamente los artÃculos; otros editores deben perder tiempo valioso en revertir tus acciones y empañas la imagen de Wikipedia que puede hacerse un visitante ocasional. Recuerda además que las ediciones arbitrarias pueden ser consideradas un acto de vandalismo (lo que nos obligarÃa a bloquearte) y que tienes la zona de pruebas para hacer ensayos de edición. Gracias. Tano ¿comentarios? 23:06 7 mar 2007 (CET)Â
Whats even more, whois 148.245.60.60 guides us directly to:
owner:Â Â Â Â Â Â INSTIT LATINOAMERICANO DE LA COMUNICACION EDUCATIVAownerid:Â Â Â Â MX-ILLC1-LACNICaddress:Â Â Â Â ARENAL NO. 550.address:Â Â Â Â CIUDAD DE MEXICO, DF 16020country:Â Â Â Â MXÂ
Same IP and whois information that of our kindest Alejandro Guzman, who works for Enciclomedia. Where does all this information takes me…Well… it seems that someone inside the Enciclomedia Project and ILCE has been investing a lot of effort trying to hide all information that doesn’t defend the project.If it wasn’t enough with all the political problems they have found themselves with corruption administration and logistics. They keep playing the game…They deleted:
- Critics
- References
- Detailes on Documents and Names
- Links to further information
- etc.
The only way to gain the confidence, trust and support from the people is talking clearly, open and transparently.As i once said… We are not the same country nor generation as we were in the 80’s. You can’t control people by manipulating information, not in this era where openness and collaboration is a modus operandi.We all want Enciclomedia to work, but hiding mistakes wont make it work…Open people… think open.When you share you problems and mistakes, people will learn from them and will help you solve them.

Interesting issue, the great thing of wikipedia is that you can link to the past history of whatever vandalism that could have happened on the history tab. It’s worth mentioning what information got replaced and if the IP was correctly addressed or spoofed.
Also I wasn’t aware that a user could modify an article without at least having an account. Great blog, too bad that I haven’t seen it before maybe you can give some publicity on some news site like Meneame or Cofradia