Ready to promote their bosses at the drop of a hat! Ready to right the wrongs (or rights) of the Internet super-encyclopedia from their office computers at any moment. Yes, they are the Legislative Super Wiki-Avengers!

The Bee did some Wiki-spying on the California state government folks, and found some unsurprising results.  They edit Wikipedia! The Assembly wikiscanner report and the Senate report are quite intriguing on their edits. Many of them aren’t shocking, a few edits of California universities state senate campaigns, likely by interns from those universities, some changes to some high schools, and some self-aggrandizement of some politicians. Many are quite honest, like adding the committees on which they serve. Others, are a little more suspect. Flip

The Bee points out some edits to Sen. Leland Yee’s wikipage. Namely, it removed a story uncovered in Yee’s run for SF Supervisor about an arrest in Kona, Hawaii for shoplifting a bottle of suntan lotion. Matier and Ross story here. Furthermore, somebody in the Legislature added this little comment to Mike Nevin’s page, Yee’s primary opponent in 2006
Current version:

In his political career, Nevin has focused on transportation issues, including the expansion of BART and CalTrain, as well as gun control, education, and health care.

Legislative version:

In his political career, Nevin has focused entirely on transportation issues, including the expansion of BART and CalTrain, which has nearly bankrupt the local San Mateo County Transit agency

Other notable edits (besides some Dept. of Health staffers making some edits on the wiki-pages of some porn stars) include the taking of Joe Coto’s campaign bio and putting directly onto Wikipedia,  and the same thing for Loni Hancock. What other cool edits can you find with [Wiki-Scanner wikiscanner.virgil.gr]?