MIT professor banned from Wikipedia

A retired MIT computer science professor Carl Hewitt has been banned from editing Wikipedia following accusations from Wikipedians that for two years Hewitt has been abusing the online encyclopedia by

"using it for self-promotion, tampering with his own biography and manipulating computer science articles to inflate the importance of his own research. Senior academics in his field say the changes he made have rendered some entries in effect useless.

Administrators have claimed that his 'disruptive' activities were 'hurting Wikipedia'. Hewitt was found to be citing his own work in articles where it was not relevant, obscuring points of view at odds with his own theories, and editing his biography to promote his forthcoming public appearances."

Maybe expert-focused Wikipedia rival Citizendium will be more open to the retired academic.

Comments

[Larry Sanger]

Indeed, Prof. Hewitt has joined us.

[Larry Sanger]

Indeed, Prof. Hewitt has joined the Citizendium.