There's a new tool and it's called Wikipedia scanner http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker
I just can't see how it can ever be helpful to editors, but it might help a few journalists think up a story on a slow newsday. It even has a feature that lets you look up what has been edited in a particular IP range block. Test it out, if you seriously have nothing better to do. http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
mike
I got to see the US House of Reps before mysql got too many connections... :-) Pretty cool...
On 8/14/07, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
There's a new tool and it's called Wikipedia scanner http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker
I just can't see how it can ever be helpful to editors, but it might help a few journalists think up a story on a slow newsday. It even has a feature that lets you look up what has been edited in a particular IP range block. Test it out, if you seriously have nothing better to do. http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
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On 8/14/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
I got to see the US House of Reps before mysql got too many connections... :-) Pretty cool...
Eh that is just a signle IP so you can see it at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/143.231.249.141
On 8/14/07, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
There's a new tool and it's called Wikipedia scanner http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker
I just can't see how it can ever be helpful to editors, but it might help a few journalists think up a story on a slow newsday. It even has a feature that lets you look up what has been edited in a particular IP range block. Test it out, if you seriously have nothing better to do. http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
mike
It might be more useful than you think.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/vote-on-the-top.html
--Gracenotes
Woohoo, I did the search on my netblock and the first two links I clicked on were vandalism edits to articles on local high schools. Way to represent!
-----Original Message----- On Behalf Of michael west Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 7:17 AM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Scanner - IP edit listing vandal detection
(snip)
I just can't see how it can ever be helpful to editors, but it might help a few journalists think up a story on a slow newsday. It even has a feature that lets you look up what has been edited in a particular IP range block. Test it out, if you seriously have nothing better to do.
(snip)
mike
I don't know about that, Mike. It's got good uses over here. I keep an eye on a number of related articles with sock-vandal interest, and I just ID'ed a couple of (static) IPs exclusively used for edit warring from 2004 to July 2007, and never been dealt with... as well as their (potential) next target area.
Irksome that such work is needed, useful that it's made easier. Thank you.
FT2.
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 07:16 +0100, michael west wrote:
There's a new tool and it's called Wikipedia scanner http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker
*snip*
Submitted for general edification:
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip1=12.160.79.0-255&ip2=199.181.174.0... http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=199.181.174.146
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip3=66.7.6.160-175&ip4=192.43.248.0-2... http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=69.128.91.144
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip1=213.130.112.64-95&ip2=213.130.102... http://www.ripe.net/whois?form_type=simple&full_query_string=&search...
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip1=156.33.62.0-190.255&ip2=156.33.7.... http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=156.33.223.221
That last one is rather fascinating...Thanks
Slowking Man wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 07:16 +0100, michael west wrote:
There's a new tool and it's called Wikipedia scanner http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker
*snip*
Submitted for general edification:
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip1=12.160.79.0-255&ip2=199.181.174.0... http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=199.181.174.146
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip3=66.7.6.160-175&ip4=192.43.248.0-2... http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=69.128.91.144
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip1=213.130.112.64-95&ip2=213.130.102... http://www.ripe.net/whois?form_type=simple&full_query_string=&search...
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip1=156.33.62.0-190.255&ip2=156.33.7.... http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=156.33.223.221
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I added a search of my employer's IP addresses - I'm amazed at how much time (and taxpayer money) was spent editing World of Warcraft and anime articles. :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6947532.stm
sorry if someone brought this up already
Lol - as we all knew, silly season has well and truly hit every journalist with this "fun" tool.
http://www.cathnews.com/news/708/96.php
I still don't think it benefits us very much as editors, VP can show you much quicker all the edits an IP has made that have gone unchanged (well that's the idea, it is possible that successive editors have just edited over what the IP did).
It's a bit of fun and I hope all the journalists testing it out and writing scoops will contribute to the upkeep of the server.
mike
On 15/08/07, Adrian aldebaer@googlemail.com wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6947532.stm
sorry if someone brought this up already
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(oops - tags got into the subject field!)
-----Original Message----- From: FT2 Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:48 AM Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Scanner - IP edit listing vandal detection
-----Original Message----- On Behalf Of michael west Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 7:17 AM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Scanner - IP edit listing vandal detection
(snip)
I just can't see how it can ever be helpful to editors, but it might help a few journalists think up a story on a slow newsday. It even has a feature that lets you look up what has been edited in a particular IP range block. Test it out, if you seriously have nothing better to do.
(snip)
mike
I don't know about that, Mike. It's got good uses over here. I keep an eye on a number of related articles with sock-vandal interest, and I just ID'ed a couple of (static) IPs exclusively used for edit warring from 2004 to July 2007, and never been dealt with... as well as their (potential) next target area.
Irksome that such work is needed, useful that it's made easier. Thank you.
FT2.
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 07:16 +0100, michael west wrote:
There's a new tool and it's called Wikipedia scanner http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker
I just can't see how it can ever be helpful to editors, but it might help a few journalists think up a story on a slow newsday. It even has a feature that lets you look up what has been edited in a particular IP range block. Test it out, if you seriously have nothing better to do. http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
mike
And on this note: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/08/20