On 21/08/07, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
Wikinews has been playing with the tool too, our
interest was "what have the
*media* been manipulating?" - And the first question we shot at the guy,
Virgil, who set up the scanner was, "Can you include other Wikis?" With what
we've found here:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/FOX_News_fares_poorly_in_investigation_of_media_
edits_to_Wikipedia we'd like to know if WikiSource or Wikinews have been
"whitewashed".
It's a fairly simple transformation of a MediaWiki database dump - it
should be easy to do for any MediaWiki installation. I understand the
WikiScanner is running flat-out at the moment, though that should ease
up as the media interest slows.
(The media interest has been ridiculous - I was doing press all
Thursday and Friday and it's still all over the blogosphere. What can
I say, it's August ...)
- d.