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RE: See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
by ubernoir at 10:46 am EDT, Aug 16, 2007

Elonka wrote:

Wikipedia Scanner -- the brainchild of CalTech 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.

Virgil's on Wired. :)

(Update: Slashdotted)

the bbc version of this story is nice

On the profile of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the tool indicates that a worker on the CIA network reportedly added the exclamation "Wahhhhhh!" before a section on the leader's plans for his presidency.

A warning on the profile of the anonymous editor reads: "You have recently vandalised a Wikipedia article, and you are now being asked to stop this type of behaviour."

nice to see the CIA with a sense of humour 8-)

RE: See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign


 
 
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