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Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments
wikiwho.ailef.tech#wikipedia edits#ip ranges#wikipedia transparency#organization edits
How HN took it
5 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 4 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Docs: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, transparent tool for spotting organizational edits
From 3 comments
I have to say, this is depressing to see just how corrupt brands and institutions are to protect their own bullshit. Nevertheless, great work and a very useful project.
skilled on HNThis is amazing. Thank you for making this! I want to highlight one part from the About page[0], as it's important enough to bear repeating: > Any information that you find with…
Sophira on HNThis is a great idea. Thanks for making and sharing.
ibejoeb on HN
Objections
IP-to-organization mapping is imprecise; shared ranges pool unrelated edits
From 2 comments
This is an amazing tool, but I'd caution it's using IP lists for groups of specific organizations. One of the 2 IP lists provided by the author is just the US military:…
sushiburps on HNThis tool is interesting and useful, but it's important to remember that it is constrained by the lists of mapped IP addresses. It will only show edits made by these specific…
karaterobot on HN
Tool only catches amateurs; professionals evade via VPNs or accounts
From 2 comments
Of course, this only catches the relative "amateurs". Proper professionals change IP address before making their edits, or they register a "volunteer" account (this also prevents…
akolbe on HNYes, this is unfortunately a very big issue and one of the reasons I didn't develop it further.
ailef on HN
Requests
Serve the site over HTTPS
From 2 comments
Pretty cool, please make it run under HTTPS
mhitza on HNNo TLS? Really? What year is this?
jmprspret on HN
Link each page to its Wikipedia article
From 1 comment
You could link to the wikipedia article in each page
11235813213455 on HN
Questions
Which organizations are included in the dataset?
From 1 comment
This is amazing. Thank you for making this! I want to highlight one part from the About page[0], as it's important enough to bear repeating: > Any information that you find with…
Sophira on HN
How is institution or company defined?
From 1 comment
How is "institutiion" or "company" defined? I couldn't find any international news providers for example, Newscorp, BBC, Daily Mail Probably not a major issue though. As…
iso1631 on HN
Alternatives named
WikiScanner by Virgil Griffith
From 1 comment
Virgil Griffith had earlier done a similar tool and paid dearly for it after exposing CIA and FBI edits" 16 Aug 2007 — CIA and FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits ... The…
erie on HN
Ed Summers' anon Wikipedia edit monitoring bots
From 1 comment
There was fun time when Ed Summers made a tool to monitor Wikipedia edits from some IPs pool realtime, and it turned into worldwide effort with Twitter bots monitoring many…
rainbowdash on HN