Wikipedia: Tool for Propaganda
NewsBusters - 59 minutes ago
By Matthew Sheffield | August 14, 2007 - 15:33 ET In my experience, Wikipedia is often a good resource, especially for pop culture and computer tech terms. ...

Not content to only spread their lies through their cable channel, radio shows, and website, FOX News has been rewriting history on Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia Spin Doctors Revealed
Information Week Weblog, NY - 12 minutes ago
A new Web service searches the change logs of 35 million Wikipedia edits and attempts to identify the organization associated with the IP addresses recorded ...

This will probably come as a surprise to absolutely no one, but a new Wikipedia scanner service is matching the IP address of Wikipedia edits to the organizations the IPs are associated with -- and it's turning up some interesting matches.

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Wikipedia Spin Doctors Revealed
InformationWeek, NY - 1 hour ago
A new Web service searches the change logs of 35 million Wikipedia edits and attempts to identify the organization associated with the IP addresses recorded ...

Cory Doctorow :Following up on this morning's story about outing whitewashers on Wikipedia , Brian sez, "We went ahead and took a look at changes to Wikipedia allegedly made by the people from the Fox News offices - the changes originating from IP address 12.167.224.228.

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Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities keen for some good PR. But a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order to improve their public image.

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Decius6i5 writes "Caltech grad student Virgil Griffith has launched a search tool that uncovers whitewashing and other self-interested editing of Wikipedia. Users can generate lists of every edit to Wikipedia which has been made from a particular IP address range. The tool has already uncovered a number of interesting edits, such as one from the corporate offices of Diebold which removed large ...

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A new Web service searches the change logs of 35 million Wikipedia edits and attempts to identify the organization associated with the IP addresses recorded with changes.

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See Who Is Whitewashing Wikipedia
E-pressen, Denmark - 13 minutes ago
Caltech grad student Virgil Griffith has launched a search tool that uncovers whitewashing and other self-interested editing of Wikipedia. ...

A new Web service searches the change logs of 35 million Wikipedia edits and attempts to identify the organisation associated with the IP addresses recorded with changes.

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Virgil Griffith, a good friend and fellow hacker, reminds us today that anonymity on the internet does not really exist.



http://KSoze.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/15...wikipedia-entry

Call Stephen Colbert, whose "Wikiality" has entered reality.

There are a few news stories breaking about people editing Wikipedia - including the CIA, Diebold, and U.S. Congressional Offices.



http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08...list-of-changes

Fox, NYT Play With Wikipedia
WebProNews, KY - 1 hour ago
IP addresses associated with news organizations have been connected to edits made in Wikipedia that either smear rivals or remove negative information from ...

IP addresses associated with news organizations have been connected to edits made in Wikipedia that either smear rivals or remove negative information from their entries. No one can claim innocence on either side of the political spectrum when it comes to playing with Wikipedia entries. The online encyclopedia that anyone can edit sometimes suffers from that openness. The debut of an ...

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Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities keen for some good PR. But a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order to improve their public image.



http://ElDraque.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08...-over-wikipedia

But Wikipedia does track who edits what, and a new tool launched on the internet yesterday makes it much easier to track who has changed what.

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Exposed: guess who has been polishing their Wikipedia entries
Times Online, UK - 20 minutes ago
A new website built by an American technology student has uncovered the lengths that companies apparently go to improve their public image by tweaking their ...

Want to know just who's vandalizing a Wikipedia page? Look no further than the WikiScanner.

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Scanner shows origin of Wikipedia edits
What PC?, UK - 11 minutes ago
A Wikipedia scanner invented by an American student has made it easy to see who is editing entries in the popular online encyclopaedia. ...

Arthur Bergman at O’Reilly Radar has the lowdown on some changes Fox News has been making to the Wikipedia entries of their critics and competition (like Al Franken) which were traced back to a Fox News IP address. Many companies use Wikipedia to build their own image, reputation and search rankings, but when it comes to [...]

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Scanner shows origin of Wikipedia edits
CRN - UK, UK - 13 minutes ago
A Wikipedia scanner invented by an American student has made it easy to see who is editing entries in the popular online encyclopaedia. ...

INTERNET COMIC WIKIPEDIA has always taken a dim view of people editing their own entries, but it's always been possible to remain anonymous while rewriting history. At least until now.

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How to Find Out Who Is Editing Wikipedia Entries
Switched, NY - 14 minutes ago
Wikipedia is one of the most impressive social experiments to come out of the Internet, but there will always be a cloud of doubt hanging over the ...

INTERNET COMIC WIKIPEDIA has always taken a dim view of people editing their own entries, but it's always been possible to remain anonymous while rewriting history.

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Tool names editors of Wikipedia
BBC News, UK - 53 minutes ago
By Jonathan Fildes An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has been launched. ...

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Wikipedia Scanner: Now See Who Is Editing Wikipedia
Product Reviews, UK - 3 hours ago
The wikipedia scanner works by tracking the editors IP address and this could really help with stopping the people who are ruining wikipedia. ...

New Online Tool Unmasks Wikipedia Edits
Orlando Sentinel, FL - 10 minutes ago
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN | AP Technology Writer 3:54 PM EDT, August 15, 2007 What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, ...

What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? A new online tool called WikiScanner reveals answers to such questions. As the Web encyclopedia that anyone can edit, Wikipedia encourages...

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What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? A new online tool called WikiScanner reveals answers to such questions.



http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/15/8...wikipedia-edits

New Online Tool Unmasks Wikipedia Edits
MyFox Washington DC, DC - 55 minutes ago
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN AP Technology Writer What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? ...

What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? A new online tool called WikiScanner reveals answers to such questions. As the Web encyclopedia that anyone can edit, Wikipedia encourages participants to adopt online user names, but it also lets contributors be identified simply by their computers' numeric Internet addresses. Often ...

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New Online Tool Unmasks Wikipedia Edits
News 10NBC, NY - 1 hour ago
What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? A new online tool called WikiScanner ...

New online tool unmasks Wikipedia edits
TechSpot - 39 minutes ago
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com Wikipedia has long been the target of numerous companies and individuals which anonymously remove unflattering information ...

Fox News, NYT personnel cleaning up Wikipedia entries?
CNet News.com Blog - 1 hour ago
One of the biggest gotchas in the Web 2.0 world is getting caught editing Wikipedia entries that you have some relationship with. It seems it happens nearly ...

Blog: According to analysis, people using Fox News and New York Times IP addresses have been scrubbing Wikipedia entries.

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New online tool unmasks Wikipedia edits
Canada East, Canada - 19 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) - What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? ...

A computer researcher has devised a way of tracking changes made to Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit, to expose organisations and individuals who tweak and airbrush their own entries.

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New online tool unmasks Wikipedia edits
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 16 minutes ago
What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? A new online tool called WikiScanner ...

A NEW online tool called WikiScanner reveals just who has been making changes to the pages of online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia Scanner
WCIA-3 News, IL - 17 minutes ago
You can now find out who's tweaking what on Wikipedia. A college student invented a scanner that matches records of who was editing entries and IP addresses ...

A new website built by an American technology student has uncovered the lengths that companies apparently go to improve their public image by tweaking their entries on Wikipedia , the online encyclopaedia that - famously - “anyone can edit”.

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Fox News, NYT personnel cleaning up Wikipedia entries?
ZDNet Asia, Asia - 1 hour ago
By Daniel Terdiman, CNET News.com Update: One of the biggest gotchas in the Web 2.0 world is getting caught editing Wikipedia entries that you have some ...

Suspicions abound as to whether such big names are editing their Wikipedia entries.

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Vonage edits Wikipedia entry, tool indicates
ZDNet - 27 minutes ago
By now you may have heard of Wikipedia Scanner, a hot new Web-based tool that tracks changes to Wikipedia entries made by individual IP addresses. ...

Officials connected to the CIA and Britain's Labor Party have altered Wikipedia entries in an attempt to enhance those groups' public image, a report shows.A new Web site that tracks Internet activity found individuals connected to both organizations made alterations to online definitions in an attempt to gain additional public support, The Telegraph reported Wednesday.Among the CIA-based changes ...

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Who's editing what on Wikipedia?
Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 21 minutes ago
What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? A new online tool called WikiScanner ...

What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in the CIA or the Church of Scientology? A tool called WikiScanner can reveal the answers.

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Is Wikipedia becoming a hub for propaganda?
Globe and Mail, Canada - 19 minutes ago
A website that tracks the origins of millions of edits to Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, shows that computers inside federal government offices are ...

A new service designed by graduate students at CalTech which compares the IP address of anonymous Wikipedia editors to ...

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