I’m a little late to the party here on the blog. Virgil Griffith, a Caltech graduate wrote a web site which identifies anonymous edits made at Wikipedia. Behold the power of Wikipedia Scanner.
LGF has lots of coverage on this. Wired just set up a great page where readers contribute dirt they’ve uncovered. Pretty much everybody has been snared. Government agencies, big businesses and churches are all caught red-handed.The New York Times, though, really shines for its sheer immaturity.
Everybody knows that Wikipedia has to be taken with a grain of salt. I’m stunned that they even allow anonymous editing, though. That’s just asking for trouble. Griffith has done the world a great service.
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