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  • http://www.wisebread.com/the-student-who-created-a-pr-nightmare-via-wikipedia

    From the page: "Virgil Griffith is someone I am proud to look up to. In a moment of inspiration, he created a program called Wikipedia Scanner that lets you know who has been editing articles on Wikipedia and what they've been removing. Not surprisingly, the revelations have left many... more

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  • Rated by MaheshNayak on Oct 30, 1:04am

    He had "heard about Congressmen being caught for white-washing their Wikipedia pages."

  • Rated by LafnLion on Oct 08, 10:20pm

    A fellow named Virgil Griffith created a program called the Wikipedia scanner, which details how different users are editing articles. What it has discovered is massive disinformation campaigns by politicians and companies to whitewash legitimate negative information about their people or products.

  • Rated by lazywnch on Oct 07, 9:11am

    This is why you always need to be aware of where your information is coming from.

  • Rated by Crutchley29 on Aug 13, 3:40pm

    Interesting.

  • Rated by doublefrangelico on May 19 2009, 9:21am

    It should be obvious that wikipedia is not reliable as a sole source of information, but it isn't to many. Especially the cretins that update pages with false/fake/unfounded information. These same cretins probably thought that their powerlunch was more important than "that silly computer course", otherwise it would have been obvious that their misdeeds would become public knowledge eventually... From the page: "a program called Wikipedia Scanner that lets you know who has been editing articles on Wikipedia and what they've been removing. The result is a laundry list of changes that makes Wikipedia look like an agent of propaganda and a completely unreliable tool. some of my favorite edits include... * Microsoft tried to cover up the XBOX 360 failure rate * In the 9/11 Wikipedia article, the NRA added that â€oeIraq was involved in 9/11” * Exxon Mobil edits spillages and eco-system destruction from oil spillages article * Scientology removes criticism and negatives article from Scientology page * Dog breeding association deletes whole paragraphs about fatal attacks by dogs on humans * Fox News removes all controversial topics against the network from the Fox News page * Walmart removes criticism of outsourcing work. The retailer also changes negative paragraphs of underpaid workforce * Someone at Reuters calls Bush â€oea mass murderer” * Coca Cola removes negative content about its effects * US University adds the â€oeprestigious” adjective to its page"

  • Reviewed by Nukedoom on Apr 05 2009, 5:59pm

    Not new but definitely refreshing.

  • Rated by rebirthocool on Apr 05 2009, 1:23am

    not anything new. i wonder how anyone could say for sure who edited a wikipedia page, but i guess its all conjecture anyway.

  • Rated by polarbear253 on Mar 23 2009, 1:09pm

    hardly a PR nightmare