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

• wikiwho

  3 14 10.0 SCSS

  A tool to extract and explore Wikipedia edits made by companies, institutions and governments

Hi HN!

Wikiwho is a tool that scans Wikipedia edits and extracts those coming from specific IP ranges associated to known organizations. I've made this as a for-fun side project two years ago.

If you want to read more on how it works I've written a short blog article about it here: https://ailef.tech/2020/04/18/discovering-wikipedia-edits-ma...

I had already posted it here at the time (previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22907200) but I've now decided to release the code openly, hence the repost.

If you're insterested, you can check the repo here: https://github.com/aileftech/wikiwho

• gccaedits-ip-address-ranges

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  Discontinued These are the IP ranges used for @gccaedits.

This tool is interesting and useful, but it's important to remember that it is constrained by the lists of mapped IP addresses. It will only show edits made by these specific sources, and no others:

https://github.com/ruebot/gccaedits-ip-address-ranges/blob/m...

https://gist.github.com/artfulhacker/a6eb800e58f2eb6f9231

It would be a very basic mistake conclude that these are the only groups editing Wikipedia articles to control the narrative, just because they're the only ones being sampled.

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• anon

  3 966 0.0 JavaScript

  tweet about anonymous Wikipedia edits from particular IP address ranges

There was fun time when Ed Summers made a tool to monitor Wikipedia edits from some IPs pool realtime, and it turned into worldwide effort with Twitter bots monitoring many governments and big corporations, highlighting a lot of cringe edits and poor attempts to remove some info from Wikipedia. Many bots are still active, you can find source code and list of bots here https://github.com/edsu/anon

Also there is analysis of old edits (2002-2014) using IP ranges collected for bots https://jarib.github.io/anon-history/, source code: https://github.com/jarib/anon-history

• anon-history

  1 17 10.0 HTML

  History of anonymous Wikipedia edits from governments/parliaments/power centers around the world

There was fun time when Ed Summers made a tool to monitor Wikipedia edits from some IPs pool realtime, and it turned into worldwide effort with Twitter bots monitoring many governments and big corporations, highlighting a lot of cringe edits and poor attempts to remove some info from Wikipedia. Many bots are still active, you can find source code and list of bots here https://github.com/edsu/anon

Also there is analysis of old edits (2002-2014) using IP ranges collected for bots https://jarib.github.io/anon-history/, source code: https://github.com/jarib/anon-history

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