See Who Is Whitewashing Wikipedia 478
Decius6i5 writes "Caltech grad student Virgil Griffith has launched a search tool that uncovers whitewashing and other self-interested editing of Wikipedia. Users can generate lists of every edit to Wikipedia which has been made from a particular IP address range. The tool has already uncovered a number of interesting edits, such as one from the corporate offices of Diebold which removed large sections of content critical of their electronic voting machines. A Wired story provides more detail and Threat Level is running a contest to see who can come up with the most interesting Wikipedia spin job."
TFA Interesting (Score:5, Funny)
"One CIA entry deals with the details of lyrics sung in a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode."
Nerds.
BS (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The encyclopedia ANYONE can edit. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Reminder to self: whitewash from home (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, only the really important people are allowed to have picket fences...
Don't you mean . . . (Score:4, Funny)
New poll topic! (Score:1, Funny)
Diebold
Rumsfeld
Any article dealing with "Islam in country x"
Cowboy Neal
What's with the path?!?! (Score:5, Funny)
?!?!?!
Re:TFA Interesting (Score:3, Funny)
Communism was just a red herring.
Re:The encyclopedia ANYONE can edit. (Score:2, Funny)
Fuck me. Someone please go and wipe the postmodernism wiki now!
slashdotliberalwhining (Score:5, Funny)
I'm glad someone added the slashdotliberalwhining tag.
I can't tell you how much it bothers me when some whiny liberal drags out another tinfoil-hat theory about how "Big Business" is trying to manipulate public opinion by obfuscating facts, or how some (ooh!) big, scary police state is abusing its powers.
We're an established first-world country with a tradition of freedom, and it's not as if we're ever going to slip into fascism like the Germany or Italy of last century, or into a police state like modern China or Russia, or into a gilded age aristocracy like every country in the Americas except the United States and Canada.
So relax, whiny liberals. Such dangers are unheard of. If we seem to be slipping in any of those directions, just shut up and take it like a conservative - silently and complacently, without a doubt in your mind that no matter how badly things seem to be going, our superiors have things well in hand. Only losers whine about truth and decency. If you're a winner, you'll cheer for the winning side, no matter how repugnant its aims.
Wikipedia whitewashing won't matter... (Score:5, Funny)
Clarifying the NSA (Score:5, Funny)
Now this was just silly . . .
Re:BS (Score:5, Funny)
No, I didn't and now I feel like an idiot. Its times like this that I'm glad my slashdot name isn't linked to my real identity
Re:TOR (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The encyclopedia ANYONE can edit. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Jews (Score:3, Funny)
Wow. You make that sound almost as bad as the Anonymous Coward's on slashdot...
Re:I battle this from time to time (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The encyclopedia ANYONE can edit. (Score:3, Funny)
Well... we do... but the value of the questions the tool gives us is rather obscure.
Re:TFA Interesting (Score:5, Funny)
Re:TFA Interesting (Score:4, Funny)
Re:BS (Score:5, Funny)