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12 years ago there used to be a fantastic tool called WikiScanner that did exactly this. It made headlines for revealing edits by intelligence agencies and corp
by vector_spaces 7y ago
12 years ago there used to be a fantastic tool called WikiScanner that did exactly this. It made headlines for revealing edits by intelligence agencies and corporate character assassination campaigns around the world.
One that stood out for me was a series of bizarre edits from CIA IP ranges to Mahmoud Ahmedinejads article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6947532.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6947532.stm
The site went offline unceremoniously in 2008
- ailef 7y agoYes, I mention this in the article as well. I came up with this idea and then discovered it had already been done before, but since it has been offline for such a very long time I thought it could be cool to do it again 12 years later!