Virgil Griffith, creator of the popular WikiScanner that exposed edits that Diebold and CIA employees were making to Wikipedia pages, is releasing a suite of new tools at the HOPE (Hackers on Planet ...

A San Diego Police Department dispatcher and anonymous Wikipedia users have edited or deleted paragraphs from the misconduct section of the police department’s Wikipedia page five times since January ...

Sick of anonymous users screwing up your hard work on the Wikipedia? Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at Cal Tech, created a tool that identifies anonymous Wikipedia editors based on the digital ...

Ed Summers, an open source Web developer, recently saw a friend tweet about Parliament WikiEdits, a UK Twitter “bot” that watched for anonymous Wikipedia edits coming from within the British ...

This summer has been filled with tales of odd, and at times shameful, Wikipedia edits coming from congressional IP addresses thanks to the recently created @congressedits Twitter bot that ...

File this under "could be interesting." Last week, a few civic-minded coders built a tool to track anonymous edits to Wikipedia pages by congressional staffers. The result was @congressedits, a ...

It seems a little misleading to say that "Congress" or the "Senate" made an edit just because it came from a particular IP address. There are a lot of people that work there, not even counting ...