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October 8th, 2007 at 8:00 am

Civil servants unproductive? Says who?

Gundam, as described on tax-payers’ time by the Ministry of AgricultureNow that it’s possible for all to see who exactly is editing entries on Wikipedia (courtesy of WikiScanner), there has been a number of interesting revelations, including those reported on here at Japundit last month.

It’s now been reported that the Ministry of Agriculture “has reprimanded six civil servants who spent hours at work editing articles on Wikipedia”, one of whom was revealed to have “made 260 entries to articles about Gundam”!

The group apparently made 408 entries while at work since 2003, on subjects as diverse as “Japanese movies, mistakes on billboards and local politics”, as well as giant robots.

“The Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam,” ministry official Tsutomu Shimomura told the Associated Press news agency.

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