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Wikipedia is one of the most powerful sites on the web, as we noted earlier this month. We found that Wikipedia pages appeared on the first page of Google results (the most dominant search engine in the world) for more than 50% of the most searched for web topics.

How do you describe a Wiki to someone who has no idea what you’re talking about? Here is one definition: “ Wiki (from the Hawaiian word for quickly) is a medium for collaboration that allows many people to participate in the production of a long-term knowledge repository or database, often devoted to a specific subject or field of interest.

Late last year the Independent on Sunday gave Aunty a dab on the snout.   Using WikiScanner, a service which allows you to see the changes made to Wikipedia articles by people posting from within companies and organisations (which I discovered courtesy of this journalism.co.uk article), they found that BBC people were responsible for putting a positive spin on BBC Wiki entries.

Filed under: news Wikiwatcher has just officially released their new tools. We covered their announcement at The Last HOPE just last month. The 2.0 version of Wikiscanner is not ready just yet. Poor Man's Checkuser exposes the IPs of quite a few user accounts.

Permalink | No Comments » how bout a lil funny for monday mornin.. AL Reynolds Monday, July 21st, 2008 Al Reynolds knows he is a total fool. (okay I lied, a big funny) who do you think believes any of this corn Big Gay Al ? can we all say together - ” Jesus. Pleeeeeze Take the Wheel “..

Filed under: cons, news [Virgil] presented the next version of Wikiscanner at The Last HOPE today. To build the original, he scanned the monthly database dump of anonymous edits and compared that against a purchased list of known company IP addresses. The 34.5 million edits account for nearly 21% of all edits.

Using Wikiscanner, I decided to dig a little deeper into the history of the Wikipedia article on the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As the NCLB Wikipedia page’s overview asserts, “the effectiveness and desirability of NCLB’s measures … Excerpted from:

Now this isn’t a new tool, and it’s not quite up to date as the author hasn’t updated it for a while - but it’s still exceedingly cool! As you know most IP addresses are registered to companies or organizations in blocks, so you can identify which network an edit is coming from as Wikipedia logs [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({...

bowblog: What is Speechification? - Steve describes Speechfication. “we roam the corridors of the BBC’s archive selecting the stuff we think is really excellent, unusual or important and putting it on display” Wikiscanner reveals amusing HP-on-IBM vandalism - http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr is great, and helped me spot this cute litte edit from 2006.

Did You Know? April 17, 2008 • 20 Comments Those that can move around on the Internet with ease can discover most anything they wish. In ‘real life’ they often become the go-to person; “Can you find out for me… ?” Consider it done.