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Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

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Post by ailef »

Sophira wrote: post #7

This is amazing. Thank you for making this! I want to highlight one part from the About page[0], as it's important enough to bear repeating: > Any information that you find with this tool must be independently verified. The mapping between IP ranges and organizations has been compiled from multiple sources and has not been manually verified so it is certain that it contains inaccuracies. I do have a question about th…

Thanks, I'm glad you liked this!

It's not exactly a page but there's this JSON file in the repo https://github.com/aileftech/wikiwho/blob/master/resources/r...

Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

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Post by passwordoops »

skilled wrote: post #6

I have to say, this is depressing to see just how corrupt brands and institutions are to protect their own bullshit. Nevertheless, great work and a very useful project.

You really want to feel depressed? Look up Unusual Whales [1], a day trading app focusing on investment flows in the markets who does an annual report on insider trading by US officials, including Congress and SCOTUS. Even went so far as to create a congressional ETF. The focus is US pols, but no reason to suspect other jurisdictions are any better.

There's a reason both parties put a HUUGE emphasis on culture war - it distracts us from their true crimes that just happen to transcend party lines.

[1] https://unusualwhales.com/politics

Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

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Post by elashri »

thedudeabides5 wrote: post #9

Org/Page Search not working here fwi. Great transparency, now where are the foreign service firm and their proxies. You are telling me the FSB and the United Front aren't editing Wiki? I've had them edit my stuff, so know it's happening. Just not sure the scale.

You said their proxies, which is not providing an easy to identify method. No one is going to do this in russia on a kermlin computer. They will let their boys do that.

Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

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Post by ailef »

thedudeabides5 wrote: post #9

Org/Page Search not working here fwi. Great transparency, now where are the foreign service firm and their proxies. You are telling me the FSB and the United Front aren't editing Wiki? I've had them edit my stuff, so know it's happening. Just not sure the scale.

> Org/Page Search not working here fwi.

I think it was because the server was overloaded due to it being on the front page. It seems to be working for me now (you need to enter at least two characters for suggestions to appear).

As for the rest, I just collected some IP ranges on the internet. The might include foreign service firms or not, it wasn't feasible to check them manually. If you know about any IP range though I'll be glad to merge it into the repo.

Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

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Post by prox »

pastacacioepepe wrote: post #5
culi wrote: post #3

One of the Navy Network Information Center (NNIC)'s top edits is the Subic rape case.[0] Predictably and, unfortunately, it's essentially all edits trying to play down the case or cast doubt I've been a Wikipedia editor for a few years now (mostly botany-related pages) and I've been quite the pessimist about the platform for almost as long. But browsing this website has gotten me really demoralized to be honest. Many…

I completely lost trust in Wikipedia once I realized recent history is literally being rewritten by biased editors. For one, check the edit history of anything Russia/Ukraine war related, it's a complete shitshow.

History was always written by the victors, we only see it happen in real time now.

Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

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Post by akolbe »

Of course, this only catches the relative "amateurs". Proper professionals change IP address before making their edits, or they register a "volunteer" account (this also prevents routine disclosure of the IP address, but still makes the IP address potentially discoverable by higher-ranking Wikipedia functionaries).
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