Wikipedia is one of the largest information sources online. Along with google, it controls much of what people access when they search for information on the net.
It is reportedly commonly used by both teachers, lecturers and the media - those who have a great influence on what us masses are generally given access to - without further checking being done.
But anyone can edit the information on there. And so anyone can manipulate the information on there.
Now you can see just who is doing that. And what they've got to say.
WikiScanner is a searchable database linking Wikipedia edits to organisations through the IP addresses of those doing the editing.
See what the UK government has to say, or your local authority. Or big business. Spot their agendas in action.
Hours of endless fun, and disinformation at:
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
It is reportedly commonly used by both teachers, lecturers and the media - those who have a great influence on what us masses are generally given access to - without further checking being done.
But anyone can edit the information on there. And so anyone can manipulate the information on there.
Now you can see just who is doing that. And what they've got to say.
WikiScanner is a searchable database linking Wikipedia edits to organisations through the IP addresses of those doing the editing.
See what the UK government has to say, or your local authority. Or big business. Spot their agendas in action.
Hours of endless fun, and disinformation at:
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
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brilliant resource...
15.03.2008 18:32
scan the scam
Really?
15.03.2008 20:16
Niall
Who cares?
15.03.2008 20:19
Niall
MI5 is editting wikipedia
17.03.2008 10:41
"Slim Virgin had been voted the most abusive administrator of Wikipedia. She upset so many editors that some of them decided to team up to research her real life identity.
Attempts to track her through Internet technology failed. This is suspicious in itself as the location of normal Internet users can easily be tracked. According to a team member, Slim Virgin "knows her way around the Internet and covered her tracks with care."
Daniel Brandt of the Wikipedia Review and founder of Wikipedia-Watch.org patiently assembled tiny clues about Slim Virgin and posted them on these Web sites. Eventually, two readers identified her. Slim Virgin was no other than Linda Mack, the young graduate Salinger hired.
John K. Cooley, the collaborator of Salinger in the Lockerbie investigation, posted the following letter to Brandt on Wikipedia Review, which has been set up to discuss specific editors and editing patterns and general efforts by editors to influence or direct content in ways that might not be in keeping with Wikipedia policy:
She claimed to have lost a friend/lover on pan103 and so was anxious to clear up the mystery. ABC News paid for her travel and expenses as well as a salary'
Once the two Libyan suspects were indicted, she seemed to try to point the investigation in the direction of Qaddafi [Libyan President Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi], although there was plenty of evidence, both before and after the trials of Megrahi and Fhimah in the Netherlands, that others were involved, probably with Iran the commissioning power. [In 2001, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison; Lamin Khalifah Fhimah was acquitted.]
Salinger came to believe that [first name redacted but known to be Linda] was working for [name of intelligence agency redacted but known to be Britain's MI5] and had been from the beginning; assigned genuinely to investigate Pan Am 103, but also to infiltrate and monitor us.
Soon after Cooley wrote to Brandt, Linda Mack contacted him and asked him not to help Brandt in his efforts to expose her. All doubts about Slim Virgin's true identity had vanished. Today, Linda Mack is rumored to reside in Alberta, Canada, under the name of Sarah McEwan."
Danny