Comprehensive list of Fox News-sourced changes to Wikipedia entries

[Berry Cool]

Found it here:

http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/08/14/fox-news-changes-wikipedia-to-smear-rivals-olbermann-and-franken-comprehensive-list-of-changes/

This blog chronicles all changes made to Wikipedia entries on:

Keith Olbermann
Chris Wallace
Carl Cameron
Brit Hume
Shepard Smith
Al Franken
Brian Wilson
CNN
Greta Van Susteren

by an IP address from Fox News.

Of course, there are other sources for vandalism to pages for people like Keith. OlbermannWatch is responsible for quite a bit of the vandalism done to Keith's page, I don't doubt, such as a statement that he graduated from a public high school in New Jersey rather than the private school in New York that he actually graduated from.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. What's Your Point?

[Berry Cool]

3. That they're as good at lying online as off. n/t

[nashville_brook]

2. DIEBOLD also caught making changes! wow -- from Wired

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker

See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
By John Borland Email 08.14.07 | 2:00 AM
CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith built a search tool that traces IP addresses of those who make Wikipedia changes.


On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the location of the computer used to make the edits.

In this case, the changes came from an IP address reserved for the corporate offices of Diebold itself. And it is far from an isolated case. 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.

Wikipedia Scanner -- the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith -- offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.

Inspired by news last year that Congress members' offices had been editing their own entries, Griffith says he got curious, and wanted to know whether big companies and other organizations were doing things in a similarly self-interested vein.

[Berry Cool]

4. See, it can be very interesting to see who's monkeying with Wikipedia

and editing it so as to remove info they don't like, add or emphasize info they don't, and just plain weave in some outright lies.

Just another example of lies making it halfway around the world before truths get their shoes on.

[nashville_brook]

6. i think of Wikipedia as a discussion -- always good to know who is speaking in a discussion

[bbgrunt]

5. Interesting---clearly Colbert was doing all a favor

when he instructed people to go there to erase the extinction of elephants by increasing their numbers on the site. There is a whole lot of reason to not blindly trust any info on the net.