Wikipedia Scanner - who can you trust?

Friday 21 September 2007 10:29 GDT

Title	Wikipedia Scanner - who can you trust?
Weblog	Gurteen Knowledge Weblog
Knowledge Letter	Appears in the Gurteen Knowledge Letter issue: 87
Posted Date	Friday 21 September 2007 10:29 GDT
Posted By	David Gurteen
Links	http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr

If you are a Wikipedia fanatic or critic then this article on the Wikipedia Scanner is a must read.

Wikipedia Scanner was created by Cal Tech graduate student Virgil Griffith. It allows you to discover the organizations that have apparently edited the seemingly anonymous Wikipedia entries by cross-referencing the edits with the internet IP addresses of the editors and the IP address owners.

The bottom line is that you can now get an idea how Wikipedia is being 'gamed' and this is forcing the Wikipedia Foundation to review how articles are edited as this New Scientist article explains.

The Gurteen Knowledge Search Engine is a customised Google search engine that searches over 800 KM related websites and weblogs.

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