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WIRED - 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. . .
Griffith downloaded the entire encyclopedia. . . The result: A database
of 5.3 million edits, performed by 2.6 million organizations or
individuals ranging from the CIA to Microsoft to congressional offices,
now linked to the edits they or someone at their organization's net
address has made.
Some of this appears to be transparently self-interested, either adding
positive, press release-like material to entries, or deleting whole
swaths of critical material. Voting-machine company Diebold provides a
good example of the latter, with someone at the company's IP address
apparently deleting long paragraphs detailing the security industry's
concerns over the integrity of their voting machines, and information
about the company's CEO's fund-raising for President George Bush.
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker
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WIRED - 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. . .
Griffith downloaded the entire encyclopedia. . . The result: A database
of 5.3 million edits, performed by 2.6 million organizations or
individuals ranging from the CIA to Microsoft to congressional offices,
now linked to the edits they or someone at their organization's net
address has made.
Some of this appears to be transparently self-interested, either adding
positive, press release-like material to entries, or deleting whole
swaths of critical material. Voting-machine company Diebold provides a
good example of the latter, with someone at the company's IP address
apparently deleting long paragraphs detailing the security industry's
concerns over the integrity of their voting machines, and information
about the company's CEO's fund-raising for President George Bush.
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker
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