A CIVIL servant at Westminster has spent hours at work updating Wikipedia entries on Scottish football teams and players, it has emerged.
A computer programme that monitors the IP addresses of contributors to the online encyclopedia has revealed that changes to some teams and players pages were all made from within the offices of a UK government department.
So far, the identity of the fan has not been revealed, but whoever it is is responsible for more than 40 edits made in the last week alone.
Among the changes uncovered by the monitor 'bot', were alterations to the page devoted to the Dunfermline Athletic squad and individual players' goal tallies.
The second-largest number of Wikipedia edits were related to Dundee United player Nadir ifti.
Government offices at Whitehall include the Cabinet Office, Foreign and Commonwealth department, and the Scotland Office, collectively employing around 1,800 people.
The @WhitehallEdits Twitter 'bot', set up by Channel 4 News in August 2014, automatically tweets about any anonymous changes made by people using Whitehall-associated Internet protocol addresses.
The edits were not made from a single IP address, meaning the individual computer of the unknown civil servant cannot be easily identified.
Some of the more recent revisions include: the number of goals scored by Berwick Rangers' defender Ross Drummond; the signing of Jim Paterson by Dunfermline Athletic, and changes to the Montrose squad.
Dunfermline Athletic general manager David McMorrine said that the information posted about the club was accurate but they had no idea who was doing it.
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