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Friday, 31 August 2007

Wikipedia and IP

Well, well, well, I see people on Wikipedia have been very busy over the last few weeks, and on that note so have Electronic Arts and editing there own wikipedia articals. I was using something that tracks IP adresses that make changes to articals, and it just so happened that EA changed some stuff about how long there employees work from this: (words in bold have been changed)

Electronic Arts has from time to time been criticized for its employment policy of requiring employees to work extraordinarily long hours; up to 65 hours per week; as a general rule and not just at "crunch" times leading up to the scheduled releases of products. "The current mandatory hours are 9am to 10pm; seven days a week; with the occasional Saturday evening off for good behaviour (at 6:30pm), http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/.

To this:

Electronic Arts has from time to time been criticized for asking some employees to work long hours. The company has since settled a [class action] lawsuit brought by game artists to compensate for "unpaid overtime" EA management demanded of its....

Different really.

At some points mention of the previous name of the company Amazin' Games were removed under the editing reason of "typos", so here are the best bit from "typos":

BEFORE

Strategy and Marketing. Hawkin's founded the company in the summer of 1982 with a personal investment of US$200,000. His tentative name for his newly found company was ''Amazin' Software''. This name was universally disliked by other early members of the company and was soon changed.

AFTER:

Strategy and Marketing. Hawkins founded the company in the summer of 1982 with a personal investment of US$200,000. His original name for his newly found company was ''Amazin' Software''.

Biiggg typo then.
Oh well, EA is a big company they must care about there image status for now... BIG TYPO!

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