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See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:59 AM EDT
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A new data-mining service launched Monday traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation, which until now have surfaced only piecemeal in investigations of specific allegations.

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{"commentId":945215,"authorDomain":"luckydog"}
luckydog

Great seed Fenian. Long overdue service for Wikipedia.

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Reply#1 - Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:39 AM EDT
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Thura

Did you try the Scanner.. pretty cool. Am playing around with it now.

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  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:16 AM EDT
{"commentId":945346,"authorDomain":"silkmesh"}
Babel Fish

when you cant trust an encyclopedia what can you trust, is this however a seed piece of propaganda, it actually looks like it but on second thoughts how could it be this is the vine

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Reply#3 - Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:05 AM EDT
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Raat ki Raani

someone's watching, always.

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#3.1 - Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:50 AM EDT
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{"commentId":945569,"authorDomain":"fdbryant3"}
FDBryant3

It is an interesting conumdrum. On the one hand public entities should have right to make sure that the information on Wikipedia is fair and accurate. On the other hand they shouldn't be allowed to delete legitimate criticscims and issues.

I think probably the best thing a public entity can do is be open about changes they make and provide documentation supporting anything they add or remove.

Either that or learn how to use TOR to make changes.

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  • 4 votes
Reply#4 - Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:59 AM EDT
{"commentId":945901,"authorDomain":"thura"}
Thura

For now, at least they are caught in the act..

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  • 3 votes
#4.1 - Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:56 AM EDT
{"commentId":946186,"authorDomain":"silkmesh"}
Babel Fish

But can we believe that as I fear the propaganda war from the political forum is increasing on the WWW if we now go to look at the online encyclopedia were properly find the changes have been amended back but where is the proof the changes have been made in the first place.

The point is this encyclopedia has already been under attacked that it is left winged based. There is a war going on on the internet that in my opinion will only cool down after the election.

I have looked at this on line encyclopedia and can not for the life of me find any political leaning. I have used it for political reference and posted them in comments to see a reaction, no reaction so far.

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    #4.2 - Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:34 PM EDT
    {"commentId":947147,"authorDomain":"dehehn"}
    Deh Ehn

    Well all the changes are recorded and the entire history is stored. And really you shouldn't be using one single source for research...especially if that source is open to manipulation to everyone on the web.

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      #4.3 - Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:52 PM EDT
      {"commentId":947585,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
      Glinda

      @Babel Fish
      You're talking about all that liberal bias that is being battle by the Conservipedia, I think. Now that's paranoia!

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      • 1 vote
      #4.4 - Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:58 PM EDT
      {"commentId":948019,"authorDomain":"silkmesh"}
      Babel Fish

      The problem with paranoia its easy to catch, being wise is the only preventive immunization.

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        #4.5 - Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:58 AM EDT
        {"commentId":948534,"authorDomain":"miasma"}
        miasma

        Catalog of Fox News Wikipedia whitewashes - BoingBoing
        and... More...GeeksAreSexy
        ...and watch what Fox changes yourself. Wiki
        I guess those guys will just start going to Starbucks and making these 'edits' now.

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        • 2 votes
        #4.6 - Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:29 AM EDT
        {"commentId":948540,"authorDomain":"miasma"}
        miasma

        Wow, just... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keith_Olbermann&diff=prev&oldid=25368982

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          #4.7 - Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:30 AM EDT
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          {"commentId":945816,"authorDomain":"miasma"}
          miasma

          What an awesome find. Thanks.

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          • 2 votes
          Reply#5 - Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:27 AM EDT
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