Wikipedia Unmasked Excerpt from article....
When an edit is made to a Wikipedia page, the IP address that made the change is recorded. What Griffith did was take the 34,417,493 anonymous edits added between February 2004 and August 2007 and correlate them with the IP addresses of hedge funds, law firms, media companies, the CIA, and the rest of us. He dubbed the result Wikiscanner, and launched it two weeks ago. Disruption occurred. The site lit up the Boing-Boing-osphere, a story about corporate edits made the cover of the New York Times, and-what fellow hackers seemed most impressed by-Stephen Colbert used Wikiscanner as the centerpiece of a Word of the Day monologue on The Colbert Report. The Threat Level blog at Wired took the lead in gathering the most egregious edits, a dragnet that rounded up the usual suspects. A Scientology IP added a link to the Kurt Cobain page that suggests the singer's childhood Ritalin prescription led him to suicide. An Exxon IP cleaned up the section on the effects of the Valdez oil spill, cheerfully noting "six of the largest salmon harvests in history were recorded in the decade immediately following the spill." A Philip Morris IP deleted this sentence from a history paragraph of the "Marlboro (cigarette)" page: "It emerged as the number one youth-initiation brand." Complete article... http://www.slate.com/id/2172703/?GT1=10252 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
