WikiScanner reveals anonymous Wikipedia editors
Stephen Warley August 16th, 2007
This is a journalist’s dream come true! You can now discover which organizations (or at least their IP address) have added or edited entries on Wikipedia using the WikiScanner. Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at Cal Tech, developed the tool. Why did he do it? In his list of FAQs for the media he writes, “To create minor public relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike.” Check out what Wal-Mart, ExxonMobil, the CIA, and the U.S. House of Representatives have been editing on Wikipedia. Gotta love the web for the transparency it brings.
3 Comments Add your own
1. baker | August 16th, 2007 at 6:57 am
and now they’ll just erase references to their unsavory practices from a public library or coffee shop during their next business trip.
2. Steve Safran | August 16th, 2007 at 8:29 am
You give them way too much credit. Although I have taken out all the changes I made to ‘baker, cause of iraq war.’
3. bul | August 16th, 2007 at 8:41 am
i thing they give them much credit.
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