- published: 22 Aug 2007
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WikiScanner (also known as Wikipedia Scanner) was a publicly searchable database that linked millions of anonymous edits on the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia to the organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on the owners of the associated block of IP addresses (WikiScanner did not investigate edits made under a username.) It was created by Virgil Griffith and released on August 14, 2007. In his "WikiScanner FAQ" Griffith stated his belief that WikiScanner could help make Wikipedia more reliable for controversial topics. He also indicated that he had never been employed by the Wikimedia Foundation and claimed his work on WikiScanner was "100% noncommercial." On December 21, 2012, a research group from Fondazione Bruno Kessler released an open-source clone of WikiScanner called WikiWatchdog.
As of April 8, 2013, attempts to run "WikiScanner Classic" from wikiscanner.virgil.gr returned to the WikiScanner home page, which identified itself as "WIKIWATCHER.COM"; and invoking "WikiScanner2 PreviewNew!" led to a "failure to load the page due to timeout" error.
Wikiscanner
WikiScanner on NHK
Wikipedia and WikiScanner
Wikiscanner Interview
Wikipedia und Wikiscanner
WiKi-SCAN™ Portable Inspection System
gnooze: August 15, 2007
WIKIPEDIA is NSA DISCREDITING OPERATION
Scientology: Re-Writes History - Proof
Scientology tries to rewrite history
Virgil Griffith interviewed about WikiScanner on NHK Japan (last 5min of 20min piece)
A look at how wikipedia works, and the wikiscanner tool
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It's the gnooze! (the G is silent) Soldier suicide is on the rise, Tropical storm Erin is headed towards Texas, and wikipedia whitewashing is no more. Oh, and earthquake hit Peru, or something. Marta Costello hosts the gnooze -- with funny voices. For more on the wikiscanner... http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
http://www.worldreports.org/news/121_u.s._supreme_court_orders_president_bush_to_pay check for yourself with wikiscanner http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/ link from article Conspiracy Times http://philipcoppens.com/wikiworld.html
The articles that this information came from are ref'd below. Please know I did not use Wikipedia for any information in this video. If you are scared off by the length you can get most of the info in the first three min of video. http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/ http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wikipedia-scanner.htm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20284811/ http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2007/08/vatican-scientologists-mormons-caught.html http://wired.reddit.com/wikidgame/ http://www.discord.org/~lippard/skeptic/03.3.jl-jj-scientology.html http://www.xenu.net/ http://durham21.co.uk/archive.asp?ID=3775 Here is a laundry list of SOME things they changed: http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip1=205.227.165.0-255&ip2;=12.9.239.0-255&ip3;=12.153.84.40-47
The articles that this information came from are ref'd below. Please know I did not use Wikipedia for any information in this video. If you are scared off by the length you can get most of the info in the first three min of video. http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/ http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wikipedia-scanner.htm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20284811/ http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2007/08/vatican-scientologists-mormons-caught.... http://wired.reddit.com/wikidgame/ http://www.discord.org/~lippard/skeptic/03.3.jl-jj-scientology.html http://www.xenu.net/ http://durham21.co.uk/archive.asp?ID=3775 Here is a laundry list of SOME things they changed: http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip1=205.227.165.0-255&ip2;=12.9.239.0-2...