Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits
Since Wired News first wrote about WikiScanner last week, Internet users have spotted plenty of interesting changes to Wikipedia by people at nonprofit groups and government entities like the Central Intelligence Agency. Many of the most obviously self-interested edits have come from corporate networks.
Every day we find out just how useless this is.
It's still a source and a place to find links. Probably as reliable as any single source, but if the subject is important, one source isn't enough.
Is anyone actually surprised by this? Same goes for on-line remarks about books on Amazon or Barnes & Noble, reviews about any new products where random people can rate products. All the same. Buyer beware.
i always use google to search.....wiki always comes up early tho(probably because it contains so many links, eh), so i find myself using it a lot.
grain of salt.
I have a feeling most of changes are made by people without the companies or government support when they have too much time on their hands.
What does this mean? I clicked a red link on wiki the other day and found out my ip addy is banned from editing. I've never edited anything on wiki but now I can't?
You're probably in the same IP range as a trouble-maker or more than one. It's easier to block a range than try to nail down every individual person, especially when DHCP means that some people's IP address can change from day to day. I bet you could contact them and get them to allow yours, if you really wanted to.
Grifftopia is widely known as a hotbed of History by Consensus troublemaking.
My new goal in life is to have a Wiki article created about me.