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Wikiscanner, developed by Virgil Griffith, allows anyone to check which organizations (or/and IP addresses) have been making anonymous edits on Wikipedia.

I just ran a scan on the location "Brussels" and found the following interesting list:

• Catholic University of Louvain: 4136 anonymous edits in Wikipedia.
• Department of Economic Affairs: 1250 anonymous edits.
• European Commission: 928 anonymous edits.

You can see the full Brussels list here. Other searches reveal that many corporations are making anonymous edits to entries about their organization and also show that CIA, NSA etc... are changing information related to hot topics or less popular incidents.

PR Agencies worldwide are also doing some anonymous editing, see Porter Novelli, Edelman, Hill & Knowlton...

Wikiscanner is getting a lot of attention of the mainstream media and the blogosphere at this moment. Great initiative though...

Technorati : Belgium, Brussels, EU, KUL, VUB, cia, nsa, wiki, wikipedia, wikiscanner

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