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 ...

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 ...

If you haven't already, you should check out Virgil Griffiths Wikiscanner. The WikiScanner database was made by extracting all anonymous edits from the publicly available Wikipedia database dump ...

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 ...

A Wikipedia administrator has blocked anonymous edits from a congressional IP address for 10 days because of "disruptive" edits being made by someone located in the House of Representatives, a ...

CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith built a search tool that traces IP addresses of those who make Wikipedia changes. Photo: Jake Appelbaum On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user ...

A UK government computer is making hundreds of anonymous edits to Wikipedia pages every month. The connection, understood to be owned by the Government's Public Services Network, made more than 500 ...

Wikipedia users logging on from the U.S. House of Representatives have been barred from editing that website anonymously for one month, following a controversial edit to the entry for a popular TV ...

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 ...

On November 8, 2016, the night of Donald Trump’s election, artist and programmer Justin Blinder was closely watching Wikipedia. He noticed that a section of Trump’s Wikipedia page had undergone some ...