Anonymous Wikipedia Edits? Not When You Know FOX's IP Address

Submitted by Aaron Pava on August 22, 2007 - 8:10pm

No longer are corporations or congressmen anonymous when white-washing their wikipedia pages.

Now with WikiScanner by Virgil, IP addresses are the public's smoking-gun and are creating public relations disasters, one company at a time.

The New York Times ran a
Submitted by GregoryHeller on August 23, 2007 - 10:04am.

The New York Times ran a good article on this.
Jimmy Wales was quoted saying:

“When someone clicks on ‘edit,’ it would be interesting if we could say, ‘Hi, thank you for editing. We see you’re logged in from The New York Times. Keep in mind that we know that, and it’s public information,’ ” he said. “That might make them stop and think.”