Wiki Scanner
I got this today while listening to This Week in Tech episode 110: WikiScanner is a web site created by Virgil, who is currently working at Indiana University.
The idea of WikiScanner is to list edits done by organizations on Wikipedia based on their IP range. For instance, you can see how many edits within Wal-Mart's IP range were meant to make the company look nicer on Wikipedia. Wal-Mart, I have only one word for you: Busted!
Now, funny thing, when Virgil was asked why he created such a tool, his answers were:
The idea of WikiScanner is to list edits done by organizations on Wikipedia based on their IP range. For instance, you can see how many edits within Wal-Mart's IP range were meant to make the company look nicer on Wikipedia. Wal-Mart, I have only one word for you: Busted!
Now, funny thing, when Virgil was asked why he created such a tool, his answers were:
- To improve virgil.gr 's Google pagerank for the query 'virgil'
- To create a cornucopia of minor public relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike.
- To see what "interesting organizations" (which I am neutral toward), are up to.
- Every time I hear about a new security vulnerability, I look to see if it can be done on a massive scale and indexed.
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