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Wikipedia's 2 millionth English article & WikiScanner
2007-09-14 12:39:00 Wikipedia, the free and most used online encyclopedia recently reached the milestone of two millionth English article by publishing a post about Spanish television show El Hormiguero. It's quite noteworthy that since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has published more than eight million articles in 250 languages. Operated by the non-profit organization Wikipedia Foundation, it's the 6th most visited website in the world.Not only school and college students use it for project reports and assignments, but other media too use it as a source of information. But, while referring to an article on Wikipedia, do you check its history? It contains information about previous edits which may have controversies and many interesting notes.To make things easy, an American hacker Virgil Griffith has developed an online tool called WikiScanner that reveals who is editing what on Wikipedia anonymously, and from which organisation edit was done based on the IP addresses. It has already created waves b...
By: funduBytes
WikiScanner - See Who?s Editing Wikipedia
2007-09-01 00:00:00 On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the ...
By: NS4W.ORG anized
Deutscher Wikiscanner
2007-08-31 14:13:00 Der deutschsprachige Wikiscanner ist seit 24. August Online. Bereits seit Mitte August 2007 verrichtet der englischsprachige Service seinen Dienst (s. Bericht bei taxipluto) Wie in der englischen Ausgabe von Wikipedia sind auch in der deutschen bemerkenswerte Änderungen in Beiträgen zu finden. So wurde beispielsweise von einer IP-Adresse bei Sanofi-Aventis aus ein Eintrag zum Wirkstoff Clopidogrel ...
By: taxipluto
Bring Me the WikiScanner!
2007-08-22 08:52:00 The power that Wikipedia has on our lives is really something. For many it's the first port of call for any information on a topic. Some (myself included) often search for a topic on the public encyclopaedi...
Microsoft on Wikipedia - findings from WikiScanner
2007-08-19 15:42:00 By now most people have probably heard of WikiScanner, the web-tool used to map anonymous Wikipedia edits against a list 2.6 million known IP ranges owned by some of the most reputable organizations and companies in the world. Naturally, people start by scrutinizing the obvious targets such as the CIA, but what about our friends ...
WikiScanner traces IP addresses of Wikipedia editors
2007-08-18 19:16:00 by Geezer Power … 10:16 AM PDT See Who’s Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith built a search tool that traces IP addresses of those who make Wikipedia changes. Jake Appelbaum On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an ...
By: Suzie-Q
WikiScanner: Anonymous You Have a Problem
2007-08-16 17:07:00 There is a new tool out there that can show who made anonymous changes to Wikipedia. Virgil Griffith, who will graduate soon from the California Institute of Technology has developed what he calls the Wikipedia Scanner, a search tool that traces the IP address of people who make edits to the online encyclopedia. The scanner ... |
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