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Wired.com: WikiScanner Coverage

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/vote-on-the-top.html

WIRED, San Francisco

$10,000 Grand Prize

From the Judges: “With as popular as Wikipedia has become, this tool finally inserts an air of accountability to those who edit the site to fit their own agendas.”

WIRED magazine’s blog, called “Threat Level,” made clever use of a brilliant new technology in the service of the public’s right-to-know, engaging readers in a crowd-sourced expose of corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries not favorable to a company’s reputation. Wired issued this invitation to its reader community: “Share Your Sleuthing! Cornered any companies polishing up their Wikipedia entries? Spotted any government spooks rewriting history? Try Virgil Griffith’s Wikipedia Scanner yourself, then submit your finds and vote on other readers’ discoveries here.”

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