See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
source: http://www.katherinealbrecht.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61:see-whos-ed...
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Wikipedia Scanner -- the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith -- offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.
Inspired by news last year that Congress members' offices had been editing their own entries, Griffith says he got curious, and wanted to know whether big companies and other organizations were doing things in a similarly self-interested vein.
"Everything's better if you do it on a huge scale, and automate it," he says with a grin.
Inspired by news last year that Congress members' offices had been editing their own entries, Griffith says he got curious, and wanted to know whether big companies and other organizations were doing things in a similarly self-interested vein.
"Everything's better if you do it on a huge scale, and automate it," he says with a grin.
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- ilikeike bastardized this and spread it like a virus
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artemis6
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Watching the watchers , I like it !
- 2 years ago
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artemis6
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justadad
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1984 or something like that!
- 2 years ago
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justadad
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ilikeike
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they seem to be having some problems with wikiwatcher2 rollout right now but its a great idea and can only gain momentum.
- 2 years ago
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ilikeike
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ilikeike
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try it out
- 2 years ago
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ilikeike
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WakeUpPeople
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Facts are so relative anyway.
- 2 years ago
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WakeUpPeople
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MotherForTruth
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ilikeike, Thank you...Excellent info.
- 2 years ago
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MotherForTruth
