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Great, the wikiscanner site is down. Now what am I supposed to do all day?
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Great, the wikiscanner site is down. Now what am I supposed to do all day?
Keep trying. You know you want it.
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Well, there goes my day. This is so much fun.
This raises Questions, of course. Is Wikipedia so important that corporations and governments are prepared to risk the humiliaton of being caught altering pages? Or are corporations and governments just very petty and vain?
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Is Wikipedia so important that corporations and governments are prepared to risk the humiliaton of being caught altering pages?
Absolutely. It's the world's biggest encyclopedia, and the highest ranking Google source. And every advertiser and propagandist knows that controlling access to information is vital to their business. I don't think they're being petty and vain. They looking straight at the bottom line.
The more interesting question to me is: Can they succeed? Or is Wikipedia bigger than they are?
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I must edit my last comment: those two possibilites are not mutually exclusive.
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I edit mine. They are both looking at the bottom line AND petty and vain.
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Less sinister: Tory Party: warthogs 'smell of poo'
On another note, I'm not really a brewer, but I can't help thinking using brewers yeast rather than growing their own sacrificed some authenticity (admittedly perhaps on the altar of non-poisonousness).
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Not directly related. Not related at all actually, but The Onion couldn't have written a better story.
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Some more:
BBC's initial story neglects to mention BBC-sourced edits, many of them innocuous, a few likely to bring the Beeb into disrepute.
LGF lizards go predictably apeshit.
BBC Interactive's editor addresses it all in quite an intelligent blog post, in which he also admits to having corrected his own entry.
Fox News resolutely leaves itself out of the story ...
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Use up hours of time like this: poke the website name of your favourite organisation into a reverse DNS thingy (I use this website, but there are others).
Take the resulting IP address, and poke it into the WHOIS form at APNIC (for Asia-Pacific addresses, you see - there are others for other parts of the world) to find out who owns the range of IP addresses that the website lives in. If the owner is the same as your original target, then you are in business - put the range into the scanner, and do a wishart on the results.
So, let's take Air NZ - it's website (or one of them, anyway) is at www.airnz.co.nz which the IP lookup tells me is 162.112.18.131. APNIC tells me that this address is in the block 162.112.0.0 - 162.112.255.255 which is owned by Air New Zealand. Good. Now... put it into the scanner...
...and we find that there's nothing very interesting there. Just a Jazz fan and a Train spotter, by the looks. YMMV.
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Ah, thanks Alan. It was the address block trick I didn't know.
Well, there goes my day ...
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Well the VUW addresses all resolve to our proxy servers so I can't track down which of my co-workers is obsessed with editing the 'English Folk Music' page.
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From the Lion Nathan list, vandalism of the article on Australian comic Mick Molloy.
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Re: Music bundle
Some interesting observations here on album downloads and a good music site generally. Is your album release strategy the right one? EMI is doing something on this at the moment as Coolfer notes.
EMI has increased its digital album market share by 5% in the last two months, but its CD share has dropped 2.6%. EMI's total market share -- including all other formats -- has dropped 1.7%. Note that CD and digital are going in the opposite directions. Also note that the end result, the total change, is negative. EMI and iTunes have been able to get people to buy more digital albums, but total market share has dropped. Is this because of a CD-for-digital substitution or because EMI's releases were relatively weak compared to those of its competitors?
EMI's New Digital Strategy May Have Prevented A Worse June/July Slide
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__Treasury is the natural home of the pendant.__
Surely you mean the natural home of the pedant.
Yes, I did. But I'm holding out for the possibility they like pendants too ...
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Great, the wikiscanner site is down. Now what am I supposed to do all day?
That's easy, I'm editing Danyl Mclauchlan's page.
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But I'm holding out for the possibility they like pendants too ...
Or there's a lot of danglers.
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Ah - I screwed up the Fonterra search last night. There are some edits
The include a number of edits on milk, rennet, Fonterra, etc, but they all look factually-based and uncontroversial.
There is/was a fan of horrorcore working for the company though, and someone who's very keen on pro wrestling.
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That's easy, I'm editing Danyl Mclauchlan's page.
You better have a reference for that stuff about me and Chuck Norris.
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But I'm holding out for the possibility [the treasurers] like pendants too ...
if they do. i'm selling a bunch at craft 2.0 tomorrow.
</disgraceful self promotion>
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Quite the variety coming out of BNZ/NAB.
Nice to see somebody counting the rationalist, atheists and humanists though.
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which of my co-workers is obsessed with editing the 'English Folk Music' page.
Well Harry Orsman passed away already, but it's bound to be someone from Old or Middle English.
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so...
Wouldn't it be intriguing if such a tool existed for conservapedia. Fewer entries, I'm sure, but the strike rate would be better.
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BBC's initial story neglects to mention BBC-sourced edits, many of them innocuous, a few likely to bring the Beeb into disrepute.
Well, with all due disrespect to the Beeb, Russell, you'd think its employees would be too busy trying to restore their own credibility to be flushing Wikipedia's down the loo.
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