Wikipedia Scanner Reveals Who has been editing entries

A clever Cal Tech grad student, Virgil Griffith has invented the Wikipedia scanner which is a tool that will reveal exactly who is editing specific Wikipedia entries.

The Wikipedia Scanner reveals the IP addresses of those altering pages, and some of the edits revealed so far include one by the CIA and the Vatican.

On the profile of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the tool indicates that a worker on the CIA network reportedly added the exclamation “Wahhhhhh!” before a section on the leader’s plans for his presidency.

A warning on the profile of the anonymous editor reads: “You have recently vandalised a Wikipedia article, and you are now being asked to stop this type of behaviour.”

You can download the tool here.

Via Pocket-lint

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