Day archives: August 15th, 2007

CalTech Grad Student Launches Database of Wikipedia Edits

From Wired: “Wikipedia Scanner — the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith — offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.” Related news: …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Wiki