WikiScanner = Vanity UnFair or UnBalanced?
 
Self-interest in Wikipedia edits has been unmasked by a tool called WikiScanner (wiki, faq). It was created by self-described disruptive technologist Virgil Griffith (homepage). I was able to use it to quickly find that someone at Fox News had altered Al Franken‘s page under the sub-heading Conflict with the Fox News Network (click below for before & after).Â
But Fox is by no means alone. As reported on Colbert, someone at the NY Times added “jerk …” to George W’s wiki entry. Corporations enjoy politicking too. Someone at Land O’Lakes wrote:
The Republican Party of Minnesota is basically a front for the crooks, liars and religious zealots that strangly enough call themselves “human”.
For balanced vandalism, someone at the ACLU wrote slanders on Pope Benedict XVI’s page; and, no doubt in an exercise of freedom of speech, someone at the NAACP inserted “bugly wugly my ugly lugly” in the Declaration of Independence page.
Wired‘s Threat Level blog has an updated list where you can submit and vote for the most shameful wiki spins.Â
 “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity“. – Ecclesiastes
Update: The Boston Globe has an article about this.
Clarification: ‘George W’ does not refer to George Washington.
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