List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations

List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations

Now here's a fascinating and useful tool for the discerning worldwatcher. A CalTech grad student has created a tool which searches Wikipedia edits and correlates them with known IP addresses. Basically this means it's a lot easier to detect anonymous axe-griniding and ego-editing.

For instance running a scan on the IP addresses of the BBC reveals a change in the entry on George Walker Bush to George Wanker Bush

Rather a few changes to entries on 'Criticism of the BBC' including a significant excision of a quote from
an official report on the BBC's impartiality which rendered the entry meaningless.

A change of Palestinian 'terrorists' to 'freedom figters' in an entry on the Caterpillar D9 Bulldozer.

And a
gossipy addition to the entry on Natasha Kaplinsky 'She dumped some geezer from Meridian TV.'

I predict many, many hours of fun to be had. I don't doubt that the reason I can't run a report on the wikipedia edits of 10 Downing St right now is because the site is overloaded with every political hack in the country digging for dirt.