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Verify Who Edits Wikipedia Entries

in Credibility Blog by peyina August 17, 2007 at 1:59 pm

The brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith — offers users a searchable database [called WikiScanner] 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. [Copied from article in Wired, Aug. 14, 2007.] Wired suggests you try out the software and submit your vote on wikipedia submissions.

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