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I have built a tool that allows users to search and explore edits to the English Wikipedia made from IP addresses associated with public organizations. I've written a…",{"value":56,"source":50,"evidence":57},"A fun side project; the maker revived the idea of WikiScanner",[58,59],{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},{"id":60,"by":11,"text":61},"22914576","Yes, I mention this in the article as well. I came up with this idea and then discovered it had already been done before, but since it has been offline for such a very long time…",[],"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":67,"objections":84,"requests":125,"questions":138,"alternatives":144},[68],{"value":69,"source":70,"evidence":71},"Neat and interesting idea, useful for transparency","commenter",[72,76,80],{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"22913089","jimbob45","This is really neat. Great work!",{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"22909647","8bitsrule","This is very welcome, because it's a side of WP content that isn't very transparent without a lot of time-consuming scrounging. Hopefully others can build on this foundation.",{"id":81,"by":82,"text":83},"22912370","charlchi","Wow. This is really, really cool. Having this level transparency on who is spreading narratives or propaganda in what way is very interesting. In my few brief searches on some…",[85,99,110],{"value":86,"source":70,"evidence":87},"Attribution by IP is flawed: accounts, VPNs and shared IPs skew results",[88,92,96],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"22914137","rkagerer","This is really cool! But the approach seems a little flawed, as edits are attributed based on IP address. If I understand correctly that means it: - doesn't capture edits made…",{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"22912479","gruez","Institutions, companies and governments can't bother to edit from a VPN, or from a tethered cell phone?",{"id":97,"by":11,"text":98},"22914534","You are totally right. I was thinking the IP address issue could be solved by adding a feature to crowdsource information about IP addresses from users, or maybe using APIs like…",{"value":100,"source":70,"evidence":101},"Title overstates it; companies do not edit, individual employees do",[102,106],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"22916844","xwolfi","I find the title and article a bit misleading. Like \"companies\" dont edit wikipedia, usually it's a random dude forgetting to log with his phone to correct spelling, a gross…",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"22916068","DonCopal","You do realize that if an employer makes an edit during work, the IP will be of the company. Your title makes it seem like it's the official stance of the whole company.",{"value":111,"source":70,"evidence":112},"Font is too small and does not scale with page zoom",[113,117,121],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"22913760","moonchild","The text is almost unreadably small in firefox on a 1366x768 monitor. Screenshot: https:\u002F\u002F0x0.st\u002Fi1K2.png",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"22912659","Evidlo","Is it just me or the font on WikiWho really small? Also it doesn't seem to scale correctly with page zoom for some reason.",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"22912797","O_H_E","Not just you! Some text doesn't scale at all.",[126,134],{"value":127,"source":70,"evidence":128},"Fix small font and zoom scaling",[129,130,131],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},{"id":132,"by":11,"text":133},"22914541","Thanks for this feedback, I'll try to fix this as soon as possible.",{"value":135,"source":70,"evidence":136},"Find negative or controversial edits automatically",[137],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},[139],{"value":140,"source":70,"evidence":141},"How to deal with edits from VPNs or accounts that bypass IP attribution",[142,143],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},[145,152],{"value":146,"source":70,"evidence":147},"WikiScanner, the earlier site that did this",[148],{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"22914557","vector_spaces","12 years ago there used to be a fantastic tool called WikiScanner that did exactly this. 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