[Foundation-l] Wiki Scanner & wikinews

[Sage Ross]

On 8/21/07, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> Okay, you've been living under a rock if you haven't heard of the
> WikiScanner that combines a decent IPtoLocation and Whois database with a
> list of all the "anonymous" edits to Wikipedia. Wired were first off the
> blocks with their story on Diebold whitewashing, and lots of others followed
> picking up on diverse groups like the CIA and the Vatican editing Wikipedia.
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> 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".
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> The talk page of the above article has a section for questions for when we
> interview Virgil, we want to cover the aftermath of his little toy getting
> slashdotted and abused by every popular website on the net, as well as
> quietly get other wikis integrated and start looking at where else there is
> manipulation.
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> Comments/feedback? Are we unduly crucifying Fox? :-)
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> Brian.

If you haven't seen it, I did some work on the WikiScanner issue for
the Wikipedia Signpost, which may or may not be helpful.  Please
overlook the slippage between "edits from IP" and "edits from
organization" language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-08-20/WikiScanner

-Sage (User:Ragesoss)