WIKINDX Resources
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Newspaper Article:
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BibTeX citation key: Hafner2007
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KATIE HAFNER. 19th Aug 2007. Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits. The New York Times.
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Abstract
An article about some early evidence of extensive editing by IP addresses associated with companies. The program WikiScanner facilitated these discoveries.
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Further information may be found at:
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Quotes
Last year, someone using a computer at the Washington Post Company changed the name of the owner of a free local paper, The Washington Examiner, from Philip Anschutz to Charles Manson.
Keywords: lobbying by newspapers, WaPo
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WikiScanner is the work of Virgil Griffith, 24, a cognitive scientist who is a visiting researcher at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. [...] Mr. Griffith, who also likes to refer to himself as a “disruptive technologist,†said [...] “The yield, in terms of public relations disasters, is about what I expected.â€
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Mr. Wales, who called the scanner “a very clever idea,†said he was considering some changes to Wikipedia to help visitors better understand what information is recorded about them.
Keywords: WikiScanner
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Comment: Cf. Virgil Griffith's 2016 blog post
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