Tools against whitewashing Wikipedia

Wikiscanner is a new Wikipedia search tool created by a Caltech grad student named Virgil Griffith -- it scours all the IP addresses associated with Wikipedia edits and attempts to figure out which edits have been made from within government agencies, corporations, ad agencies, political campaigns and so on.

Wired News has a wiki up for readers who've uncovered damning whitewash edits by self-interested parties.

-Boing Boing

The link includes a specific example involving a Disney employee; a later post describes the activity from a Fox News IP address.

Here's the article from Wired on the Wikiscanner. Hat tip: Center for Citizen Media Blog