All the News That's Fit To Edit Anonymously Using Naughty Words
. . . a Caltech grad student has built an intriguing Wikipedia tool that allows users to search for article edits made by users from known IP addresses.
I poked around for about 10 minutes and found the following:
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On George W. Bush, 199.181.174.146 (The New York Times) added:
jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk
(I assume that's a clever ploy to boost the President's ranking in the results for search keyword "jerk".)
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On George W. Bush, 156.33.43.214 (U.S. Senate) added:
GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT TO SLEEP IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
Five minutes earlier (this was about 2 years ago), a user from the same Senate IP edited Senator Robert Byrd's page, replacing the section on Byrd's KKK membership with:
ROBER (sic) LIVES! LONG LIVE DA BIG BYRD!
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Much more at the link. Classy people, these Timesmen; not at all like those unbwashed, uncouth louts in the blogosphere.
Posted by: Mike 2007-08-15 |