{"id":874,"date":"2007-08-30T21:08:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T13:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/08\/30\/japanese-wikiscanner\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T21:08:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T13:08:28","slug":"japanese-wikiscanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/08\/30\/japanese-wikiscanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese WikiScanner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia<\/p>\n

If you’ve been keeping up with tech blogs or digg, you would have no doubt heard about WikiScanner, a project by computer hacker Virgil<\/a>. Basically it’s a script that, using the freely-available copy of Wikipedia’s database that is regularly updated, search through every single edits for IP addresses that fall in pre-defined ranges. The tool uncovered many interesting<\/em> edits<\/a>, mostly corporations and politicians who edit their own articles to delete unfavourable sections or whitewash certain words. Read more about it in Wired<\/a> and Wikipedia<\/a> itself.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the site was recently translated into Japanese and the bored people in Japan were all over it in like 5 seconds. According to this ITmedia article<\/a>, some of the interesting edits uncovered so far include Ministry Of Internal Affairs And Communication editing an article related to e-voting security flaws, MEXT<\/a> edits that praise their own website, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare edits on drugs and, for some inexplicable reason, an 18+ game “Nanatsuiro Drops<\/a>“. Maybe this falls under the “Health” part. And also, tons of Gundam-related edits from an IP address belonging to Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.<\/p>\n

Conspiracies at work or bored salarymen? Go try out WikiScanner<\/a> for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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