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. :) Threat Level is voting on the best self interested Wikipedia edit. Slashdotted! See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign |