A probe has been initiated to determine the source behind the editing of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's profile with objectionable comments on popular Internet site Wikipedia, government said today.


On July 1, it was published in various media reports that Nehru's Wikipedia profile was edited with some objectionable comments. Wikipedia had subsequently reverted the changes as per their policy.


"Actions have been initiated to investigate into the incident and determine the source of edit," Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.


The minister was responding to a query regarding action taken by the government on this issue. Prasad said as per the information published on Wikipedia website, it is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project supported by 'Wikimedia Foundation' based on a model of openly editable content.